Micah Blais
Orthopaedic Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1972867562
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 78 payments — averaging $1825.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$135K
- Sportstek Medical, Inc$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Synthes GmbH$541
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$464
- Arthrex$317
- plus $1K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$134,00094%
- Travel & lodging$1,6771%
- Food & beverage$3,7313%
- Education$2,9462%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 23 | $135,088 |
| Sportstek Medical, Inc | 3 | $2,946 |
| Medtronic | 23 | $1,906 |
| Synthes GmbH | 1 | $541 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 9 | $464 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $317 |
| Stryker | 4 | $245 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $164 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 1 | $163 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $150 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $128 |
| Axis Spine Technologies Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 2 | $67 |
| Neo Spine USA, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Elevate Surgical Co | 1 | $23 |
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
$142,354 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.
Other orthopaedic surgery in San Diego
- Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
- Joseph JankiewiczSan Diego$2.6M
- Mark McBrideSan Diego$2.6M
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$14.5M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.8M
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.