Jonathan Falakassa, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · van Nuys, CANPI 1285959106
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,000 of the $6,537 with a category attached, or 61.2%. Globus Medical accounts for 68.5% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $4,058 and has fallen 87.2% since, to $519 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $17,657.
Across 36 payments — averaging $181.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$4K
- Baxter Healthcare$383
- Highridge Medical LLC$259
- Johnson & Johnson$240
- Innovation Technologies Inc$221
- Nevro Corp.$163
- plus $796 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,00061%
- Food & beverage$2,53739%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 14 | $4,475 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $383 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 2 | $259 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $240 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $221 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $163 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $154 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $151 |
| Stryker | 1 | $145 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $141 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $118 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Amgen | 1 | $26 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Team_makena_llc | 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.
- XLIF$2,914
- TLIF$1,400
- Biomet SpinalPak Non-invasive Spine Fusion Stimulator System$400
- FLOSEAL$246
- Irrisept$221
- Omnia$163
- i-FACTOR Putty$154
- MAKO$145
- CONFIDENCE$125
- Walter$112
How this compares
$6,537 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 147 | $678 |
| Gabapentin | 61 | $486 |
| Methylprednisolone | 70 | $427 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 32 | $332 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 20 | $214 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 24 | $197 |
| Methocarbamol | 39 | $150 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 11 | $88 |
| Ibuprofen | 11 | $49 |
| Lorazepam | 11 | $7 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in van Nuys
- Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
- Brian Grossmanvan Nuys$415K
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
- 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.