Paige Fox, MD
Plastic Surgery · Palo Alto, CANPI 1629239744
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,588 of the $6,467 with a category attached, or 70.9%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Checkpoint Surgical, Inc at 31.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,206 and has fallen 58.7% since, to $912 in 2025.
Across 42 payments — averaging $153.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$2K
- Acumed LLC$2K
- Evolution Surgical, Inc$1K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$418
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$280
- Stryker$246
- plus $761 from 6 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $10,040 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Renerve Ltd$10K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5859%
- Food & beverage$4,58871%
- Education$1,29420%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 15 | $2,005 |
| Acumed LLC | 13 | $1,558 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 1 | $1,200 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $418 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 2 | $280 |
| Stryker | 3 | $246 |
| Axogen | 2 | $231 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $122 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $116 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $49 |
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.
- Checkpoint Stimulators$1,748
- ACUMED$766
- Acu-Loc Wrist Plating System$413
- Geminus$280
- Align$280
- IJS$280
- Implate$280
- Hand Fracture System$142
- Osteotomy System$142
- Acutrak Headless Compression Screw System$128
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$128
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$128
- Forearm Rod System$125
- Midshaft Forearm Plating System$125
- Exogen$122
- Total Wrist Fusion Plating System$118
- Acu-Loc Wrist Spanning System$118
- BME NITINOL CONTINUOUS COMPRESSION IMPLANTS$116
- VSP RECONSTRUCTION$107
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$104
How this compares
$6,467 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 780 plastic 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.
Other plastic surgery in Palo Alto
- Rahm NazeraliPalo Alto$1.5M
- Arash MomeniPalo Alto$836K
- Stephen SchendelPalo Alto$288K
- Michael VistnesPalo Alto$123K
- Subhro SenPalo Alto$105K
- Matthew MurphyPalo Alto$53K
- Gordon LeePalo Alto$49K
- Sarah SoricePalo Alto$40K
- Vipul DevBakersfield$1.1M
- Anne PeledSan Francisco$570K
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.