Mark McBride, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1659381077
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,434,396 of the $2,584,922 with a category attached, or 94.2%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $619,293, 2.1 times the $300,734 reported in 2019. 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.
Across 229 payments — averaging $11,288 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$2.6M
- Linvatec Corporation$1K
- Medtronic$700
- Zimmer Biomet$144
- Davol Inc.$116
- Lima USA, Inc.$100
- plus $261 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,434,39694%
- Consulting fees$136,9505%
- Travel & lodging$8,6370%
- Food & beverage$4,9390%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 212 | $2,582,401 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $1,199 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $700 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $144 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Stryker | 3 | $98 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $69 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $5 |
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.
- DJO SURGICAL$2,969,256
- DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$882,148
- DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Knee$761,554
- DJO Surgical Empowr Acetabular System$252,143
- DJO Surgical EPIK Uni Knee$26,441
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$13,500
- DJO Surgical 3DKnee System$4,596
- DJO Surgical Linear Hip System$3,250
- DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Hip$1,498
- KNEE MANUAL INSTRUMENTS$1,000
- DJO Surgical Foundation Hip System$332
- DJO Surgical Revelation Hip System$252
- BioBrace 23mm$199
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$149
- DJO Surgical CLP Hip System$146
- PHYSICA CR$100
How this compares
$2,584,922 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 21 | $138 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in San Diego
- Peter NewtonSan Diego$4.2M
- Joseph JankiewiczSan Diego$2.6M
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$13.6M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.6M
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
- Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
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.