Has Katherine Wagner, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $23,626 in general payments to Katherine Wagner, MD across 448 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 Katherine Wagner, 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 Katherine Wagner, 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.

Katherine Wagner, MD

Neurological Surgery · Stanford, CANPI 1093125478

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 59.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,583, 6.8 times the $971 reported in 2021.

$23,626in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 448 payments — averaging $52.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$14K
Si-bone, Inc.$2K
Stryker$2K
Medtronic$2K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$1K
Augmedics Inc.$900
plus $2K from 14 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$12,00351%
Food & beverage$11,62249%

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)	347	$13,963
Si-bone, Inc.	13	$1,799
Stryker	14	$1,774
Medtronic	29	$1,671
Alphatec Spine, Inc	5	$1,188
Augmedics Inc.	6	$900
Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.	6	$563
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	7	$510
Abbott	4	$300
Biocomposites Inc	3	$230
Highridge Medical LLC	1	$146
Boston Scientific	1	$110
AbbVie	2	$106
Aesculap, Inc.	1	$102
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$78
Johnson & Johnson	2	$77
AstraZeneca	2	$50
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	2	$24
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$21
Smith+Nephew	1	$15

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

$23,626 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$155,529

Medicare patients

204

Services billed

582

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
Celecoxib	26	$1,458
Oxycodone Hcl	74	$652
Methocarbamol	82	$650
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	45	$623
Calcitonin-SalmonCalcitonin,salmon,synthetic	14	$603
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	32	$547
Methylprednisolone	41	$315
Tizanidine Hcl	11	$267
Gabapentin	19	$159
Mupirocin	17	$147
Ibuprofen	11	$61
Cephalexin	11	$41

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Stanford

Stephen RyuStanford$847K
Stefan MindeaStanford$615K
Michael LimStanford$325K
Gerald GrantStanford$254K
John RatliffStanford$223K
John AdlerStanford$205K
Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
Larry KhooLos Angeles$2.8M
Samy AbdouSan Diego$2.4M
Bret AbshireMurrieta$2.3M

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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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