Jean-Jacques Abitbol, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · San Diego, CANPI 1245281856
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $572,084 of the $595,070 with a category attached, or 96.1%. Globus Medical accounts for 79.6% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $116,458, 4.6 times the $25,514 reported in 2019.
Across 178 payments — averaging $3343.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$473K
- Nanovis LLC$93K
- Stryker$21K
- GS Solutions, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- plus $3K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$572,08496%
- Consulting fees$2,1000%
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,2002%
- Travel & lodging$2,7550%
- Food & beverage$7,9311%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 68 | $473,472 |
| Nanovis LLC | 5 | $92,813 |
| Stryker | 15 | $21,050 |
| GS Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $2,450 |
| Medtronic | 15 | $1,363 |
| Boston Scientific | 33 | $1,294 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 6 | $612 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $443 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $298 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 2 | $230 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $227 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $209 |
| Abbott | 6 | $124 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $121 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $111 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 1 | $13 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $12 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- HEDRON IA$207,176
- Hedron$172,409
- INDEPENDENCE AGX$78,450
- PYRENEES CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$11,315
- COALITION MIS$10,200
- PYRENEES$9,735
- Forticore Interbody Spinal Spacer$6,422
- CALIBER$2,329
- INDEPENDENCE$494
- FORTIFY$385
- CREO$330
- COALITION$325
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$317
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$244
- aprevo$227
- ALTERA$221
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$170
- CITADEL$150
- CREO 5.5$133
- UNID_PASS$125
How this compares
$595,070 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 46 | $380 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 21 | $142 |
| Naproxen | 20 | $124 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $107 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in San Diego
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Ramin RaiszadehSan Diego$785K
- Oliver TannousSan Diego$566K
- Richard AllenSan Diego$471K
- Neil TayyabSan Diego$283K
- Vinko ZlomislicSan Diego$206K
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.