Has Sarbpaul Bhalla received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $636,576 in general payments to Sarbpaul Bhalla across 202 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 Sarbpaul Bhalla 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 Sarbpaul Bhalla 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.

Sarbpaul Bhalla

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Long Beach, CANPI 1013002625

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by other: $617,738 of the $636,576 with a category attached, or 97.0%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 97.0% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $575,391 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $89 in 2024.

$636,576in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 202 payments — averaging $3151.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$618K
Globus Medical$6K
Johnson & Johnson$6K
Cerapedics Inc.$2K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$998
Zimmer Biomet$975
plus $3K from 14 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1,5000%
Travel & lodging$5,2041%
Food & beverage$12,1342%
Other$617,73897%

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
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	3	$617,738
Globus Medical(2 entities)	42	$5,918
Johnson & Johnson	89	$5,788
Cerapedics Inc.	2	$1,933
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	11	$998
Zimmer Biomet	10	$975
Medtronic(2 entities)	10	$949
Alphatec Spine, Inc	6	$503
Zimvie Inc.	3	$401
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	2	$321
Stryker	9	$275
Baxter Healthcare	3	$243
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$187
Biocomposites Inc	1	$108
Prosidyan, Inc	1	$96
Radius Health, Inc.	2	$44
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$37
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$21
Team_makena_llc	1	$20
Biedermann Motech, Inc.	2	$19

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

$636,576 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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