Okechukwu Anakwenze, MD
Sports Medicine · San Diego, CANPI 1043418759
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $207,717 of the $304,062 with a category attached, or 68.3%. Exactech, Inc. accounts for 64.1% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among sports medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 333 payments — averaging $913.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Exactech, Inc.$195K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$36K
- Encore Medical, LP$23K
- Smith+Nephew$23K
- Stryker$7K
- Lima USA, Inc.$5K
- plus $16K from 19 others
Across 20 payments — averaging $15,930 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.
- Lima USA, Inc.$259K
- Stryker$42K
- Exactech, Inc.$18K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$207,71768%
- Speaking & faculty fees$18,9696%
- Travel & lodging$55,14118%
- Food & beverage$18,4856%
- Education$3,6781%
- Entertainment$720%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Exactech, Inc. | 147 | $194,825 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 23 | $35,761 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 54 | $23,163 |
| Smith+Nephew | 22 | $22,510 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 25 | $6,531 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 6 | $5,063 |
| Southtech Orthopedics | 8 | $3,747 |
| Responsive Arthroscopy Inc | 8 | $3,591 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $2,219 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $1,380 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $1,170 |
| BD | 1 | $750 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $655 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 7 | $612 |
| Advita Ortho, LLC | 1 | $600 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $264 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $240 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $226 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 1 | $206 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $193 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 3 | $162 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $72 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 1 | $61 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $52 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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.
- EQUINOXE$155,940
- LCP$33,929
- Healicoil$28,974
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$20,105
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$19,664
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$19,499
- Q-FIX$15,881
- EQUINOXE PHX SYSTEM$15,096
- LENS 4K$14,231
- SMR Shoulder$4,875
- Double Pump RF$3,988
- SPATIAL FRAME$3,988
- Coblation$3,988
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$3,988
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$3,800
- Responsive Arthroscopy Devices$3,540
- SIMPLICITI$3,335
- AEQUALIS$2,972
- LATITUDE - ELBOW$2,850
- SWANSON$2,850
How this compares
$304,062 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 662 sports medicine 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.
Other sports medicine in San Diego
- Tal DavidSan Diego$479K
- Michelle LookSan Diego$206K
- Neal ElattracheLos Angeles$51M
- Nathaniel CohenLos Gatos$6.4M
- Thomas KnappSanta Monica$2.5M
- Michael FreehillStanford$1.6M
- Allan MishraMenlo Park$1.5M
- Heinz Hoeneckela Jolla$1.4M
- Seth ShermanStanford$1.1M
- Stephan YacoubianBurbank$1M
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.