Robert Watkins, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Marina del Rey, CANPI 1336288992
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $192,884 of the $217,922 with a category attached, or 88.5%. Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC accounts for 71.5% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $48,477 and has fallen 94.5% since, to $2,675 in 2025.
Across 75 payments — averaging $2905.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC$156K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$57K
- Xtant Medical Inc$3K
- Medtronic$859
- Stryker$398
- Life Spine, Inc.$150
- plus $278 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$192,88489%
- Consulting fees$22,82010%
- Travel & lodging$6590%
- Food & beverage$1,4841%
- Gifts$750%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC | 27 | $155,874 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 22 | $57,264 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 5 | $3,099 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 16 | $859 |
| Stryker | 1 | $398 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Baylis Medical Company Inc | 1 | $136 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $126 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
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-L IBF System$47,088
- FORTILINK-L IBF SYSTEM WITH TETRAFUSE 3D TECHNOLOGY$6,942
- CLARITY RETRACTOR SYSTEM-LATERAL$2,600
- COFLEX INTERLAMINAR TECHNOLOGY, 10MM$415
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$398
- CROSS-FUSE II PEEK VBR/IBF SYSTEM$219
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$162
- ProLift$150
- AVATAR MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINAL SYSTEM$150
- NRG needle$136
- PROCARE$126
- PRESTIGE LP CERVICAL DISC SYSTEM$123
How this compares
$217,922 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 48 | $237 |
| Methylprednisolone | 25 | $124 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Marina del Rey
- Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
- Robert WatkinsMarina del Rey$443K
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
- Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$2.9M
- Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M
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.