Paul Kim, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · San Diego, CANPI 1639336043
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 261 payments — averaging $346.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$28K
- Elutia, Inc.$21K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$19K
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$12K
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$3K
- Medtronic$3K
- plus $4K from 25 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $4151.25 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.
- GS Solutions, Inc.$8K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1850%
- Consulting fees$36,46546%
- Speaking & faculty fees$25,76332%
- Travel & lodging$6,9509%
- Food & beverage$9,76912%
- Education$1880%
- Gifts$4821%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 72 | $27,943 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 15 | $20,501 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 17 | $19,146 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 12 | $11,888 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 18 | $3,480 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 58 | $3,219 |
| Nevro Corp. | 14 | $884 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 5 | $539 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $466 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $335 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 7 | $261 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $230 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $225 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $214 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $197 |
| Abbott | 3 | $157 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $151 |
| Stryker | 1 | $134 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $133 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $123 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Amgen | 1 | $30 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| GS Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
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.
- CORBEL$11,360
- Medical Device$6,982
- ViBone$6,800
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$6,657
- coflex$5,850
- FORTILINK-TC TIPLUS$5,638
- FORTILINK CAGES WITH TIPLUS TECHNOLOGY$5,200
- CREO MIS$4,950
- TLIF$3,059
- ECM Patch,Pouch$2,879
- VI BONE$2,700
- MIS-TLIF$2,500
- MIS Retractor$2,125
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$1,778
- CREO$1,593
- Art Exp TLIF$1,350
- XLIF$981
- Spine$886
- Excelsius - GPS$780
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$556
How this compares
$90,552 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 96 | $587 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 46 | $426 |
| Gabapentin | 37 | $162 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $134 |
| Cephalexin | 11 | $102 |
| Meloxicam | 46 | $98 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $80 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 26 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in San Diego
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Ramin RaiszadehSan Diego$917K
- Richard AllenSan Diego$654K
- Jean-Jacques AbitbolSan Diego$595K
- Oliver TannousSan Diego$566K
- Neil TayyabSan Diego$293K
- Vinko ZlomislicSan Diego$215K
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$62.2M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.5M
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.