Has Micah Blais received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $142,354 in general payments to Micah Blais across 78 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Micah Blais did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Micah Blais come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Micah Blais

Orthopaedic Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1972867562

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $134,000 of the $142,354 with a category attached, or 94.1%. Globus Medical accounts for 94.9% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $135,024 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $2,716 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$142,354in general payments, 2019–2025

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.

CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$285
XLIF$247
Excelsius - GPS$235
Other - Miscellaneous$164
MAKO$161
Excelsius3D Imaging System$158
Mariner$137
FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$128
Firebird SI Navigation System$125
Axis Spine Technologies ALIF Implant$119
X-CORE$118
TLIF$100

How this compares

$142,354 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Other orthopaedic surgery in San Diego

Peter NewtonSan Diego$4.2M
Joseph JankiewiczSan Diego$2.6M
Mark McBrideSan 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

See the full list for California →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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