Sang Kim, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1053516609
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $34,981 of the $47,714 with a category attached, or 73.3%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 87.4% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $16,746, more than ten times the $1,402 reported in 2019.
Across 164 payments — averaging $290.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$42K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Highridge Medical LLC$557
- Medtronic$476
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$452
- plus $616 from 6 others
Across 14 payments — averaging $3451.57 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.
- Cerapedics Inc.$48K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$34,98173%
- Travel & lodging$6,60914%
- Food & beverage$6,12313%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 48 | $41,703 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 50 | $2,481 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 45 | $1,429 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 3 | $557 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $476 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $452 |
| Engage Uni, LLC | 1 | $201 |
| Stryker | 1 | $161 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Carbofix Spine Inc | 1 | $72 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $27 |
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.
- EXPEDIUM$19,384
- CONDUIT$2,560
- Velys$838
- VIPER$497
- Vital$467
- RELINE$464
- Other - Miscellaneous$406
- ALIF$363
- Modulus$239
- XLIF$228
- Engage Partial Knee System$201
- Pulse$190
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$161
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$151
- BRAINLAB$112
- ViviGen$112
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$108
How this compares
$47,714 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 | 26 | $223 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $167 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $109 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Los Angeles
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$2.9M
- Jeffrey WangLos Angeles$1.4M
- Raymond HahLos Angeles$860K
- Ram AlluriLos Angeles$216K
- 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
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.