Has Paul Gilbert, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,205 in general payments to Paul Gilbert, MD across 21 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Paul Gilbert, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Paul Gilbert, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Paul Gilbert, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Los Angeles, CANPI 1457399784

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (41.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 45.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,632 and has fallen 91.6% since, to $306 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $9,645.

$4,205in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $200.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$2K
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.$2K
Stryker$380
Avanos Medical$144
Johnson & Johnson$23

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,75042%
Travel & lodging$1,39933%
Food & beverage$1,05625%

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
Zimmer Biomet	12	$1,908
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.	2	$1,750
Stryker	4	$380
Avanos Medical	2	$144
Johnson & Johnson	1	$23

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

$4,205 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 136 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$121,099

Medicare patients

369

Services billed

559

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
Amoxicillin	56	$67
Oxycodone Hcl	19	$61

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Los Angeles

William LongLos Angeles$2.8M
Nathanael HeckmannLos Angeles$722K
Daniel OakesLos Angeles$296K
Adam SassoonLos Angeles$274K
Murray WongLos Angeles$49K
William MaloneyStanford$11.1M
James CaillouetteNewport Beach$4.8M
John DearbornMenlo Park$2.5M
William Bugbeela Jolla$2.1M
James HuddlestonStanford$1.5M

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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.

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