Kee Kim, MD
Neurological Surgery · Sacramento, CANPI 1568445476
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $585,931 of the $682,048 with a category attached, or 85.9%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 38.0% of the total. Among neurological 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.
Across 167 payments — averaging $4084.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$259K
- Zimvie Inc.$163K
- Highridge Medical LLC$125K
- Precision Spine, Inc.$67K
- Globus Medical$22K
- GS Solutions, Inc.$21K
- plus $24K from 16 others
Across 257 payments — averaging $4996.83 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.
- Medtronic$438K
- AbbVie$426K
- Seikagaku Corporation$182K
- Cerapedics Inc.$100K
- Mesoblast, Inc.$54K
- Stryker$23K
- plus $59K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$585,93186%
- Consulting fees$61,1309%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,9811%
- Travel & lodging$24,8314%
- Food & beverage$3,1170%
- Education$580%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 30 | $259,481 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 18 | $163,461 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 19 | $124,845 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 24 | $67,326 |
| Globus Medical | 39 | $22,222 |
| GS Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $21,029 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $8,650 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $5,922 |
| Vertex | 1 | $4,200 |
| Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Mirus, LLC | 1 | $1,500 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $723 |
| Stryker | 7 | $615 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $147 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Kahtnu Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Mobi-C$397,008
- MOBI-C PLUG & FIT US$124,631
- SureLOK Mini Posterior Cervical/Upper Thoracic System$43,870
- ROI-A$25,335
- POSTERIOR CERVICAL$23,456
- Disc Arthroplasty$9,288
- CODMAN CERTAS$8,650
- Excelsius - GPS$6,368
- CUSA CLARITY$5,650
- MazorX - Renaissance$4,950
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$3,842
- DURAGEN$3,000
- DURASEAL EXACT$3,000
- InViZia$2,400
- Virage$2,400
- EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$1,500
- CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$1,500
- CALIBER$1,206
- MIS Posterior Cervical$975
- Xvision$654
How this compares
$682,048 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Sacramento
- Ben WaldauSacramento$207K
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Larry KhooLos Angeles$2.8M
- Samy AbdouSan Diego$2.4M
- Bret AbshireMurrieta$2.3M
- William TaylorSan Diego$2.1M
- Tooraj GravoriEncino$2M
- Ali MesiwalaRancho Cucamonga$1.5M
- Joseph OsorioSan Diego$1.3M
- Ian JohnsonFresno$1.3M
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.