RxDoctor Payments Data

Justin Saliman

Orthopaedic Surgery · Los Angeles, CANPI 1346250107

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by other: $640,127 of the $911,829 with a category attached, or 70.2%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 99.5% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $274,805 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $549 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery 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.

$911,829in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 60 payments — averaging $15,197 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Smith+Nephew$907K
  • Intravu Inc.$4K
  • Zimmer Biomet$156
  • Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$144
  • Innovation Technologies Inc$120
  • Vertex$63
  • plus $89 from 2 others
$36,100in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $36,100 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.

  • Smith+Nephew$36K
$8in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $7.50 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

  • Moximed, Inc$8

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$9,5251%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$256,00328%
  • Travel & lodging$4,3130%
  • Food & beverage$1,8610%
  • Other$640,12770%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Smith+Nephew49$906,857
Intravu Inc.1$4,400
Zimmer Biomet3$156
Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.1$144
Innovation Technologies Inc1$120
Vertex2$63
Moximed, Inc2$51
Linvatec Corporation1$37

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.

How this compares

$911,829 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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