Sarah Blumenthal, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · Los Angeles, CANPI 1730616277
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (43.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 61.1% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 104 payments — averaging $275.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$17K
- Synthes GmbH$5K
- Stryker$3K
- Globus Medical$899
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$737
- Johnson & Johnson$223
- plus $452 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,5005%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5005%
- Travel & lodging$7,37226%
- Food & beverage$5,77120%
- Education$12,50044%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 29 | $17,491 |
| Synthes GmbH | 8 | $5,372 |
| Stryker | 39 | $3,468 |
| Globus Medical | 11 | $899 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $737 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $223 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $177 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $87 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Orthofix Medical, 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.
- EVOS$4,302
- TRIGEN$3,261
- PRO$1,057
- EVOS MINI$921
- NA$589
- GAMMA$530
- TRIGEN InterTAN$517
- INSIGNIA$346
- T2$277
- Anthem$174
- Autobahn$174
- XLIF$172
- Distal Tibia Plating$167
- EVO Retrograde$167
- Mini Fragment System$167
- Distal Radius II$167
- NCB$157
- TFN-Advance$151
- PROVIDENCE$148
- PROFYLE$148
How this compares
$28,643 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 106 orthopaedic trauma 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.
Other orthopaedic trauma in Los Angeles
- Christopher LeeLos Angeles$475K
- Joshua GaryLos Angeles$466K
- Joseph PattersonLos Angeles$69K
- Eric JohnsonLos Angeles$36K
- Devon JeffcoatLos Angeles$30K
- Mark FlemingLos Angeles$18K
- Michael GardnerStanford$2.9M
- Aaron OsborneRedding$1.3M
- Robert Tonksla Jolla$1.3M
- John ScolaroOrange$1M
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.