Has John Scolaro, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,001,704 in general payments to John Scolaro, MD across 910 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Scolaro, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Scolaro, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Scolaro, MD

Orthopaedic Trauma · Orange, CANPI 1790983476

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $612,084 of the $1,001,704 with a category attached, or 61.1%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 49.9% of the total. Among orthopaedic trauma 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.

$1,001,704in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 910 payments — averaging $1100.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$500K
Zimmer Biomet$121K
Smith+Nephew$117K
Synthes GmbH$67K
Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc.$67K
Globus Medical$35K
plus $95K from 16 others

$22,550in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $2049.95 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.

BONE Support AB$23K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$22,1672%
Consulting fees$612,08461%
Speaking & faculty fees$166,04917%
Travel & lodging$172,47817%
Food & beverage$24,5812%
Education$3590%
Ownership interest$3,9870%

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
Stryker	384	$499,643
Zimmer Biomet	164	$121,382
Smith+Nephew	92	$116,524
Synthes GmbH	73	$67,404
Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc.	60	$67,011
Globus Medical(2 entities)	34	$34,576
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	51	$33,059
Illuminoss Medical, Inc.	15	$18,173
Restor3d, Inc.	9	$14,454
Tyber Medical, LLC	3	$10,627
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$8,290
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$7,538
Biodynamik, Inc	1	$1,500
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$975
Johnson & Johnson	6	$238
My01 Inc.	1	$121
Ziehm-orthoscan, Inc.	1	$56
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	2	$35
Biedermann Motech, Inc.	1	$32
BD	1	$32
Saxum Surgical, Inc.	1	$23
Micromed Inc	1	$11

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.

AXSOS$173,646
EVOS$158,426
GAMMA$156,853
VARIAX$129,155
PRO$128,641
T2$128,238
T2 ALPHA$66,256
HOFFMANN$61,369
PRECICE Intramedullary Limb Lengthening System$54,339
EVOS MINI$49,982
TRIGEN$42,240
TRIGEN InterTAN$40,464
PANGEA$36,792
CANNULATED SCREWS$34,262
ZNN$33,075
NCB Instruments/Plates/Screws$26,421
Affixus$21,023
ADAPT$19,692
META TAN$19,549
Peri-Loc$19,331

How this compares

$1,001,704 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 106 orthopaedic trauma providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$82,830

Medicare patients

141

Services billed

296

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.

Other orthopaedic trauma in Orange

James LearnedOrange$167K
Philip LimOrange$148K
Michael GardnerStanford$2.9M
Aaron OsborneRedding$1.3M
Robert Tonksla Jolla$1.3M
David LowenbergSan Francisco$788K
Eric LindvallClovis$609K
Christopher LeeLos Angeles$475K
Joshua GaryLos Angeles$466K
Christopher HoshinoTorrance$356K

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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.

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