RxDoctor Payments Data

Jean-Philippe Langevin

Neurological Surgery · Torrance, CANPI 1902047228

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,898in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 56 payments — averaging $33.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$547
  • Insightec,inc$207
  • Boston Scientific$197
  • Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$132
  • AbbVie$119
  • Alphatec Spine, Inc$117
  • plus $579 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,898100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Medtronic(2 entities)15$547
Insightec,inc3$207
Boston Scientific5$197
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC3$132
AbbVie5$119
Alphatec Spine, Inc2$117
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.5$82
Stryker3$76
Carbofix Spine Inc1$68
Bayer3$63
Globus Medical(2 entities)2$55
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc2$53
Abbott2$42
Johnson & Johnson1$39
Spinal Elements, Inc.1$33
Highridge Medical LLC1$30
Microtransponder, Inc.1$20
Novocure Inc.1$19

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.

How this compares

$1,898 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$157,087
Medicare patients
211
Services billed
530

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Gabapentin11$184

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Torrance

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