Mytien Goldberg
Surgery of the Hand · Torrance, CANPI 1376707711
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,116 of the $8,492 with a category attached, or 83.8%. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,940 and has fallen 85.3% since, to $432 in 2025.
Across 152 payments — averaging $55.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sientra, Inc.$1K
- KCI USA, Inc.$1K
- AbbVie$991
- Axogen$978
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$866
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$631
- plus $3K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8009%
- Travel & lodging$5767%
- Food & beverage$7,11684%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sientra, Inc. | 19 | $1,136 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 6 | $1,083 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 25 | $991 |
| Axogen | 14 | $978 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 13 | $866 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 18 | $631 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $520 |
| Tepha Inc | 5 | $446 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 5 | $346 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 15 | $293 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $222 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $209 |
| BD | 1 | $143 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 4 | $119 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 4 | $119 |
| Vertex | 3 | $113 |
| Stryker | 3 | $103 |
| Vioptix Inc | 1 | $64 |
| Acell, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $17 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $15 |
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
$8,492 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 76 surgery of the hand providers in California.
Other surgery of the hand in Torrance
- Lisa JewellTorrance$4K
- Deborah MartinsTorrance$1K
- Bauback SafaSan Francisco$172K
- Emily Perezla Mirada$56K
- Joshua GluckVentura$26K
- Howard SutkinLos Gatos$22K
- Aaron BergerOakland$14K
- Nicole ConklingOrange$14K
- Marie DuschSanta Maria$11K
- Andre IshakOxnard$11K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.