Nicolas Vardiabasis, DO
Orthopedic Surgery · Moreno Valley, CANPI 1164785713
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Think Surgical, Inc. at 49.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $6,976 and has fallen 89.5% since, to $729 in 2025.
Across 103 payments — averaging $156.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Think Surgical, Inc.$8K
- Arthrex$5K
- Stryker$2K
- Micromed Inc$469
- Nevro Corp.$333
- Globus Medical$167
- plus $798 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,00043%
- Travel & lodging$2,69117%
- Food & beverage$4,27427%
- Education$2,15913%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Think Surgical, Inc. | 5 | $7,993 |
| Arthrex | 28 | $4,810 |
| Stryker | 18 | $1,554 |
| Micromed Inc | 5 | $469 |
| Nevro Corp. | 11 | $333 |
| Globus Medical | 9 | $167 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $163 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $105 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $97 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 3 | $93 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $85 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $46 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
| Team_makena_llc | 2 | $12 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $12 |
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.
- TMINI Miniature Robotic System$7,922
- MAKO$883
- REUNION$275
- Senza$148
How this compares
$16,125 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 130 orthopedic surgery providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $116 |
| Ibuprofen | 19 | $107 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $4 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopedic surgery in Moreno Valley
- Marshall ChingOroville$17.8M
- Ran SchwarzkopfOrange$2M
- Brian ChingOroville$1.4M
- Peter KurzweilLong Beach$494K
- Scott Hackerla Mesa$434K
- Richard NussbaumSherman Oaks$238K
- William KimTorrance$164K
- Peter BordenTorrance$111K
- Raymond FolmarIrvine$70K
- Phillip YuanLong Beach$60K
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.