RxDoctor Payments Data

Paul Slosar

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Daly City, CANPI 1417929548

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (49.0%), other and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 91.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,151,395 and has fallen 74.5% since, to $293,741 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine 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.

$3,059,939in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 588 payments — averaging $5203.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$2.8M
  • Curiteva, Inc.$200K
  • Boston Scientific$46K
  • Prosidyan, Inc$24K
  • San Francisco Surgical Services, LLC$3K
  • Dymicron$2K
  • plus $906 from 3 others
$33,750in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $33,750 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.

  • Medtronic$34K

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$1,498,27149%
  • Consulting fees$544,84318%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$132,6634%
  • Travel & lodging$7,9180%
  • Food & beverage$3,5330%
  • Ownership interest$3,1160%
  • Other$869,59528%

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)570$2,783,542
Curiteva, Inc.3$199,841
Boston Scientific2$46,218
Prosidyan, Inc8$24,066
San Francisco Surgical Services, LLC1$3,116
Dymicron1$2,250
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated1$800
Stryker1$89
Wenzel Spine, Inc.1$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

$3,059,939 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.

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