Jeffrey Schiffman
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Escondido, CANPI 1366450785
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $744,984 of the $745,003 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Choice Spine, LLC accounts for 79.5% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $137,053 and has fallen 54.5% since, to $62,408 in 2025.
Across 81 payments — averaging $9197.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Choice Spine, LLC$593K
- Nutech Spine, Inc.$152K
- Boston Scientific$19
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$744,984100%
- Food & beverage$190%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Choice Spine, LLC | 8 | $592,529 |
| Nutech Spine, Inc. | 72 | $152,455 |
| Boston Scientific | 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.
- Tomcat Cervical Spinal System$387,466
- Tomcat$205,063
- SiFix$111,616
- Si Fix$14,928
How this compares
$745,003 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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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Escondido
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- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
- Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$2.9M
- Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
- Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.