Joseph Gorek
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Oakland, CANPI 1407908205
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,875,050 of the $1,875,695 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Stryker accounts for 94.8% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $417,550 and has fallen 67.2% since, to $136,903 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine 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 32 payments — averaging $58,615 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1.8M
- VB Spine LLC$96K
- Cerapedics Inc.$328
- Si-bone, Inc.$120
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$110
- Spineguard, Inc.$72
- plus $14 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,875,050100%
- Food & beverage$4920%
- Education$1520%
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 | 22 | $1,778,900 |
| VB Spine LLC | 3 | $96,150 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 3 | $328 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Spineguard, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
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.
- NAVIGATION INSTRUMENTS$1,030,000
- SERENGETI$748,900
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$96,150
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$176
How this compares
$1,875,695 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Oakland
- Saqib HasanOakland$718K
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- 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.