Michael Kropf, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Santa Monica, CANPI 1386798932
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 56 payments — averaging $44.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$2K
- Medtronic$157
- Johnson & Johnson$40
- Zimvie Inc.$21
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,46259%
- Food & beverage$1,00841%
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) | 53 | $2,252 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $157 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $40 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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
$2,469 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 29 | $276 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $206 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $192 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 11 | $116 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $58 |
| Meloxicam | 21 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Santa Monica
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$62.2M
- Rick DelamarterSanta Monica$2.3M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.5M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$3.2M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
- Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
- Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
- Neville AlleyneOceanside$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.