RxDoctor Payments Data

Patrick Hsieh, MD

Neurological Surgery · Los Angeles, CANPI 1942405956

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $343,615 of the $345,063 with a category attached, or 99.6%. Medtronic accounts for 75.4% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological surgery 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.

$345,063in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 86 payments — averaging $4012.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$260K
  • Globus Medical$44K
  • Zimvie Inc.$31K
  • Highridge Medical LLC$10K
  • Innovasis Inc$408
  • Orthofix Medical, Inc.$110
  • plus $17 from 1 others
$73,644in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $4909.57 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.

  • Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Development America, Inc.$33K
  • Pfizer$28K
  • Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.$11K
  • Vertex$2K

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$343,615100%
  • Food & beverage$1,4480%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Medtronic(2 entities)40$260,197
Globus Medical(2 entities)29$43,527
Zimvie Inc.8$30,583
Highridge Medical LLC6$10,221
Innovasis Inc1$408
Orthofix Medical, Inc.1$110
Johnson & Johnson1$17

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

$345,063 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$217,416
Medicare patients
378
Services billed
811

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.

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