John Kleimeyer, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Stanford, CANPI 1376986232
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 445 payments — averaging $439.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$139K
- Globus Medical$35K
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$17K
- Medtronic$3K
- Spineart USA Inc$607
- Arthrex$380
- plus $1K from 7 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $3555.67 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$11K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$140,12572%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7500%
- Travel & lodging$41,11121%
- Food & beverage$13,7447%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 186 | $138,551 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 138 | $34,896 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 66 | $17,485 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 31 | $2,767 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 4 | $607 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $380 |
| Stryker | 4 | $324 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 5 | $242 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $206 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $139 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$74,271
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$34,000
- XLIF$18,425
- Solus ALIF$11,500
- MARS$7,875
- SafeOp$7,103
- LTP$4,000
- Invictus MIS$3,253
- ALIF$1,837
- Excelsius - GPS$1,194
- O-ARM-ST$1,108
- INVICTUS OPEN$1,011
- MARS 3VL Retractor$842
- LIF$765
- Perla TL$577
- TLIF$488
- Spine$464
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$367
- OsseoScrew$330
- RELINE$310
How this compares
$195,731 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 43 | $410 |
| Methylprednisolone | 28 | $199 |
| Pregabalin | 11 | $180 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 20 | $166 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $100 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 13 | $73 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Stanford
- Serena HuStanford$738K
- James MokStanford$371K
- Kirkham WoodStanford$294K
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$62.2M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.5M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$3.2M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
- Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
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.