RxDoctor Payments Data

Noel Goldthwaite, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Daly City, CANPI 1548232903

Payments from drug & device makers

$109,184in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 44 payments — averaging $2481.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medacta USA, Inc.$107K
  • Abbott$582
  • Innovasis Inc$389
  • Neo Spine USA, Inc.$165
  • Spinal Elements, Inc.$165
  • Tenon Medical, Inc.$140
  • plus $612 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$107,12998%
  • Food & beverage$1,7432%
  • Education$3110%

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.

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

$109,184 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$68,554
Medicare patients
54
Services billed
244

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
Morphine Sulfate20$1,397
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen37$1,265
Gabapentin31$723
Lubiprostone11$507
Oxycodone Hcl17$307
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate13$291
Celecoxib13$273
Amitriptyline Hcl11$227

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Daly City

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Where these figures come from

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