Has Robert Runner, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,350 in general payments to Robert Runner, MD across 96 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 Robert Runner, 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 Robert Runner, 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.

Robert Runner, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Orange, CANPI 1134563661

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,350in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 96 payments — averaging $107.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$3K
Zimmer Biomet$2K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
Encore Medical, LP$940
Corin USA$511
plus $2K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1341%
Travel & lodging$3,11530%
Food & beverage$7,10169%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Stryker	22	$2,992
Zimmer Biomet	17	$1,530
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	7	$1,133
Johnson & Johnson	15	$1,033
Encore Medical, LP	5	$940
Corin USA	4	$511
Smith+Nephew	6	$436
Next Science LLC	3	$374
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$309
Orthalign Inc	2	$211
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.	2	$200
Medtronic	2	$194
UOC USA Inc	2	$167
Avanos Medical	2	$159
Bioventus LLC	1	$81
Pylant Medical	2	$35
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$25
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$22

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

$10,350 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 136 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$216,623

Medicare patients

213

Services billed

2,270

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
Tranexamic Acid	87	$1,162
Meloxicam	365	$1,002
Methocarbamol	87	$946
Celecoxib	30	$883
Ondansetron Hcl	107	$694
Diclofenac Sodium	26	$680
Oxycodone Hcl	101	$677
Tramadol Hcl	131	$476
Cefadroxil	52	$353
Doxycycline Monohydrate	36	$312
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	15	$129
Pregabalin	28	$63
Amoxicillin	15	$15

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Orange

Steven YangOrange$88K
Harry SkinnerOrange$27K
Ryan DigiovanniOrange$26K
Peter HsiueOrange$18K
Joseph KoresselOrange$16K
William MaloneyStanford$11.1M
James CaillouetteNewport Beach$4.8M
William LongLos Angeles$2.8M
John DearbornMenlo Park$2.5M
James HuddlestonStanford$2.2M

See the full list for California →

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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