RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Jacobson, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1760551915

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,704 of the $2,329 with a category attached, or 73.1%. It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.6%. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $2,444.

$2,329in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 61 payments — averaging $38.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$550
  • Integra Lifesciences Corporation$334
  • Johnson & Johnson$250
  • Smith+Nephew$222
  • Zimmer Biomet$170
  • AbbVie$87
  • plus $716 from 21 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$35715%
  • Food & beverage$1,70473%
  • Other$26912%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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.

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

$2,329 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$117,151
Medicare patients
241
Services billed
1,141

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen103$1,018
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen12$122

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in San Diego

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