Laura Alberton, MD
Sports Medicine · la Jolla, CANPI 1992770655
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 64 payments — averaging $103.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Impactortho, Inc.$1K
- Sportstek Medical, Inc$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$999
- Arthrex$838
- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$440
- plus $898 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$98015%
- Food & beverage$3,31850%
- Education$2,34335%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Impactortho, Inc. | 1 | $1,200 |
| Sportstek Medical, Inc | 1 | $1,143 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $1,123 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 28 | $999 |
| Arthrex | 14 | $838 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 2 | $440 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $230 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $152 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| BREG, Inc | 1 | $123 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $81 |
| Elevate Surgical Co | 3 | $79 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- HEALIX KNOTLESS PEEK$404
- TRUESPAN ORTHOCORD$283
- MILAGRO$255
- LENS 4K$150
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$150
- TWISTR$149
- FMS$143
- RIGIDLOOP$143
- DYNATAPE$143
- DYNACORD$143
- XIAFLEX$128
- Breg$123
- DONJOY$117
- AIRCAST$117
How this compares
$6,641 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 662 sports medicine 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 16 | $213 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in la Jolla
- Heinz Hoeneckela Jolla$1.4M
- Brian Rebolledola Jolla$175K
- Neal ElattracheLos Angeles$51M
- Nathaniel CohenLos Gatos$6.4M
- Thomas KnappSanta Monica$2.5M
- Seth ShermanStanford$1.8M
- Michael FreehillStanford$1.7M
- Deryk JonesSan Carlos$1.6M
- Allan MishraMenlo Park$1.5M
- Marc SafranPalo Alto$1.2M
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.