Richard Nussbaum, MD
Orthopedic Surgery · Sherman Oaks, CANPI 1972528297
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $217,610 of the $238,399 with a category attached, or 91.3%. Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. accounts for 89.3% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $83,793 and has fallen 99.0% since, to $809 in 2025. 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 84 payments — averaging $2838.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$213K
- Xtant Medical Inc$16K
- Precision Spine, Inc.$4K
- Silony Medical Corp.$3K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$579
- Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$377
- plus $1K from 9 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $3902.00 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.
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$4K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$217,61091%
- Consulting fees$12,8295%
- Travel & lodging$4,7552%
- Food & beverage$3,2041%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 40 | $212,994 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 7 | $16,460 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 15 | $4,387 |
| Silony Medical Corp. | 3 | $2,597 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 5 | $579 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $377 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 3 | $377 |
| Axiomed LLC | 1 | $244 |
| Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC | 1 | $138 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $42 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- FORTILINK-C IBF SYSTEM$138,698
- STREAMLINE MIS SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM$73,038
- Vault C$3,721
- COFLEX INTERLAMINAR TECHNOLOGY, 10MM$903
- REFORM POCT SYSTEM$524
- Intracept$434
- Perla TL$282
- Freedom Lumbar Disc$244
- Fortilink-L IBF System$133
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$126
How this compares
$238,399 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $156 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $146 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 19 | $116 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopedic surgery in Sherman Oaks
- Jonathan BottsSherman Oaks$1K
- Marshall ChingOroville$17.8M
- Ran SchwarzkopfOrange$2M
- Brian ChingOroville$1.4M
- Peter KurzweilLong Beach$494K
- Scott Hackerla Mesa$434K
- William KimTorrance$164K
- Peter BordenTorrance$111K
- Raymond FolmarIrvine$70K
- Phillip YuanLong Beach$60K
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.