Oscar Paz-Altschul, MD
Trauma Surgery · Palm Springs, CANPI 1699792317
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,271 of the $2,599 with a category attached, or 87.4%. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Integra Lifesciences Corporation at 27.7% of the total.
Across 67 payments — averaging $38.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$721
- Smith+Nephew$225
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$214
- Organogenesis Inc.$205
- Convatec Inc.$173
- AbbVie$158
- plus $904 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$32813%
- Food & beverage$2,27187%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 12 | $721 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $225 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $214 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $205 |
| Convatec Inc. | 6 | $173 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $158 |
| Reapplix Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Solventum Corporation | 4 | $123 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Acell, Inc. | 3 | $75 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $66 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $54 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $48 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $33 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Vertex | 1 | $19 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| OVIK Health, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- ACell$417
- NEURAGEN$417
- 3C Patch Kit - Box$128
- NEOX$120
- CLARIX$120
- PURAPLY WOUND MATRIX$118
How this compares
$2,599 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 119 trauma 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist. | 13 | $7,901 |
| Gentamicin Sulfate | 27 | $1,070 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 58 | $723 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 24 | $111 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+NephewSantyl | $225 | $7,90113 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 55th percentile of 119 trauma surgery providers in California.
Other trauma surgery in Palm Springs
- Kuong NgannPalm Springs$2K
- Sebastian SchublOrange$480K
- Antonio CoirinModesto$212K
- Nicole KopariFresno$90K
- Ruby SkinnerSanta Maria$66K
- Jennifer HubbardFresno$26K
- Amber JonesCastro Valley$19K
- Kaushik MukherjeeLoma Linda$19K
- Gudata HinikaParamount$18K
- Rohit SharmaSanta Barbara$17K
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.