RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Vrahas, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Los Angeles, CANPI 1255315222

Payments from drug & device makers

$29,508in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 63 payments — averaging $468.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$18K
  • Synthes GmbH$9K
  • Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$1K
  • Stryker$224
  • Zimmer Biomet$192
  • Smith+Nephew$122
  • plus $31 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$1,4085%
  • Consulting fees$16,38756%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$5,00017%
  • Travel & lodging$5,63619%
  • Food & beverage$1,0774%

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

$29,508 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$62,296
Medicare patients
89
Services billed
158

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.

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