Samy Abdou
Neurological Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1215085006
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,393,737 of the $2,394,760 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Stryker accounts for 62.6% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,721,808 and has fallen 96.9% since, to $52,582 in 2025. Among neurological 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 91 payments — averaging $26,316 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1.5M
- Zimmer Biomet$502K
- Zimvie Inc.$178K
- Globus Medical$150K
- Highridge Medical LLC$64K
- Integrity Implants Inc.$197
- plus $110 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,393,737100%
- Travel & lodging$980%
- Food & beverage$9250%
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 | 1 | $1,500,000 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $501,982 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 16 | $178,417 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 46 | $149,634 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 13 | $64,420 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $197 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $110 |
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.
- CASCADIA$1,500,000
- TRITANIUM$1,500,000
- Cypher Mis Screw System$472,828
- Polaris Posterior Spinal System$472,195
- Lineum Posterior Cervical$472,195
- Affix$145,694
- CYPHER MIS SYSTEM$79,637
- Spine System$67,834
- LINEUM OCT SPINE SYSTEM$58,263
- Polaris 4.75 Spinal System$56,235
- ExtenSure$32,265
- Lineum$9,942
- Pulse$651
How this compares
$2,394,760 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.
Other neurological surgery in San Diego
- William TaylorSan Diego$2.1M
- Joseph OsorioSan Diego$1.3M
- Vikram UdaniSan Diego$1.1M
- Arash Khalessi-HosseiniSan Diego$897K
- Alois ZaunerSan Diego$558K
- Scott LearySan Diego$352K
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Larry KhooLos Angeles$2.8M
- Bret AbshireMurrieta$2.3M
- Tooraj GravoriEncino$2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.