Jeffrey Kanel, MD
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery · Los Gatos, CANPI 1912962556
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $249,152 of the $251,160 with a category attached, or 99.2%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 99.2% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $56,519, 2.1 times the $27,389 reported in 2019. Among pediatric orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 52 payments — averaging $4830.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$249K
- Stryker$490
- Zimmer Biomet$361
- Orthopediatrics Corp.$343
- Globus Medical$291
- Osiris Therapeutics Inc.$123
- plus $400 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$249,15299%
- Travel & lodging$3040%
- Food & beverage$1,7051%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 28 | $249,152 |
| Stryker | 3 | $490 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $361 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 4 | $343 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $291 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $122 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $69 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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
$251,160 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 63 pediatric orthopaedic surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $162 |
| Meloxicam | 31 | $92 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pediatric orthopaedic surgery in Los Gatos
- Robert ChoBeverly Hills$496K
- Michael KimballSan Diego$162K
- Lindsay AndrasLos Angeles$158K
- Selina PoonPasadena$97K
- Vedant KulkarniSacramento$42K
- John SchlechterOrange$38K
- Samuel RosenfeldOrange$26K
- Matthew SchmitzSan Diego$20K
- James PolicyOakland$18K
- Molly MeadowsPalo Alto$18K
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.