Michael Cluck
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Merced, CANPI 1447205984
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $287,231 of the $329,545 with a category attached, or 87.2%. Orthofix Medical, Inc. accounts for 69.6% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $93,797, 3.1 times the $30,666 reported in 2019.
Across 104 payments — averaging $3168.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$229K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$93K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$5K
- Globus Medical$2K
- DJO, LLC$368
- Medtronic$192
- plus $185 from 4 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $5741.40 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Globus Medical$29K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$287,23187%
- Consulting fees$31,50010%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0001%
- Travel & lodging$6,1162%
- Food & beverage$2,3301%
- Other$3680%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 18 | $229,404 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 43 | $92,732 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 13 | $4,940 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 18 | $1,723 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $368 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $192 |
| Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC | 2 | $81 |
| Abbott | 2 | $47 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $29 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $29 |
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.
- Mariner MIS$153,916
- Physio-Stim$93,768
- Mariner$58,332
- Shoreline$8,750
- CAVUX Cervical Cage$2,681
- DTRAX Spinal System$1,572
- ALLY Bone Screw$1,572
- BIOLOGIX Allograft Bone$1,572
- Regatta$1,423
- XLIF$1,026
- Pulse$1,023
- Regatta Lateral System$500
- Vu aPOD Prime NanoMetalene$308
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$142
- 7D Surgical System$133
How this compares
$329,545 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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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-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 33 | $465 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Merced
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
- Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$2.9M
- Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
- Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M
- Rick DelamarterSanta Monica$2.2M
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.