RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Bellino, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Stanford, CANPI 1326134909

Payments from drug & device makers

$88,677in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 99 payments — averaging $895.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$87K
  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • Zimmer Biomet$237
  • UCB, Inc.$190
  • Flower Orthopedics Coporation$162
  • Amgen$117
  • plus $260 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$66,12575%
  • Travel & lodging$17,26019%
  • Food & beverage$5,2926%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Stryker71$86,584
Johnson & Johnson16$1,126
Zimmer Biomet2$237
UCB, Inc.3$190
Flower Orthopedics Coporation2$162
Amgen1$117
Si-bone, Inc.1$89
Smith+Nephew1$71
Globus Medical1$69
Elevate Surgical Co1$32

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

$88,677 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$72,187
Medicare patients
144
Services billed
346

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
Celecoxib39$946
Gabapentin32$317
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen18$308
Meloxicam34$180
Oxycodone Hcl20$128
Amoxicillin11$32

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Stanford

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