Ran Schwarzkopf
Orthopedic Surgery · Orange, CANPI 1407016488
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (30.9%), royalties or licence payments and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 92.3% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 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.
Across 907 payments — averaging $2245.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$1.9M
- Zimmer Biomet$78K
- Stryker$36K
- Intellijoint Surgical Inc.$22K
- Microport Orthopedics Inc$7K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$5K
- plus $9K from 8 others
Across 338 payments — averaging $9835.87 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.
- Smith+Nephew$3.2M
- Johnson & Johnson$82K
Across 13 payments — averaging $6769.87 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Intellijoint Surgical Inc.$88K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$629,24731%
- Consulting fees$629,37331%
- Speaking & faculty fees$582,51029%
- Travel & lodging$134,2927%
- Food & beverage$26,1811%
- Other$35,0912%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 733 | $1,880,574 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 130 | $78,036 |
| Stryker | 7 | $35,593 |
| Intellijoint Surgical Inc. | 10 | $21,507 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 6 | $6,751 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $4,867 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $4,500 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 4 | $3,581 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 4 | $400 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $341 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $255 |
| UOC USA Inc | 1 | $159 |
| Amgen | 1 | $111 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Journey II$887,167
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$663,391
- NAVIO$613,691
- REDAPT$261,261
- OR3O Dual Mobility$231,347
- Legion Revision$209,622
- Tandem$207,173
- POLARSTEM$150,391
- Legion$130,918
- Journey II XR$83,192
- R3 ACETABULAR$78,106
- Legion Hinge$77,362
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$76,756
- POLARCUP$54,184
- Navio Surgical System$53,333
- REDAPT Revision Hip System$50,648
- Engage Partial Knee System$47,775
- Journey II BCS$42,428
- K-15 PORK$38,006
- PICO$37,909
How this compares
$2,036,695 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 130 orthopedic surgery providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 224 | $611 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $81 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $39 |
| Amoxicillin | 16 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopedic surgery in Orange
- Eric LeeOrange$13K
- Ayaz BivijiOrange$8K
- Marshall ChingOroville$17.8M
- Brian ChingOroville$1.4M
- Peter KurzweilLong Beach$494K
- Scott Hackerla Mesa$434K
- Richard NussbaumSherman Oaks$238K
- William KimTorrance$164K
- Peter BordenTorrance$111K
- Raymond FolmarIrvine$70K
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.