Has Peter Kurzweil, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $494,119 in general payments to Peter Kurzweil, MD across 91 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 Peter Kurzweil, 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 Peter Kurzweil, 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.

Peter Kurzweil, MD

Orthopedic Surgery · Long Beach, CANPI 1700865466

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by ownership interests: $425,863 of the $494,119 with a category attached, or 86.2%. Anika Therapeutics, Inc. accounts for 97.5% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $428,105 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $15 in 2024. Among orthopedic 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.

$494,119in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 91 payments — averaging $5429.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$482K
Smith+Nephew$10K
Dunamis Medical, LLC$510
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$453
Amgen$437
Stryker$299
plus $354 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,4751%
Speaking & faculty fees$7,7002%
Food & beverage$2,3270%
Ownership interest$425,86386%
Other$55,75411%

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
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$481,617
Smith+Nephew	10	$10,450
Dunamis Medical, LLC	1	$510
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	24	$453
Amgen	34	$437
Stryker	4	$299
Johnson & Johnson	8	$150
Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.	1	$102
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	4	$86
Linvatec Corporation	1	$15

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

$494,119 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 130 orthopedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$981,937

Medicare patients

949

Services billed

21,351

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
Celecoxib	123	$3,764
Meloxicam	519	$1,351
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	91	$1,191
Cephalexin	104	$568
Diclofenac Sodium	25	$383
Ibuprofen	13	$251
Omeprazole	64	$238
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	17	$215
Prednisone	74	$203
Gabapentin	18	$65
Tramadol Hcl	11	$33

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopedic surgery in Long Beach

Phillip YuanLong Beach$60K
Jesse CaballeroLong Beach$8K
William WardenLong Beach$2K
Albert TsaiLong Beach$2K
Marshall ChingOroville$17.8M
Ran SchwarzkopfOrange$2M
Brian ChingOroville$1.4M
Scott Hackerla Mesa$434K
Richard NussbaumSherman Oaks$238K
William KimTorrance$164K

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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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