Sohrab Pahlavan
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · San Jose, CANPI 1932499332
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (41.7%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 75.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,739 and has fallen 79.5% since, to $560 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $17,657.
Across 215 payments — averaging $55.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$9K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Medtronic$794
- Si-bone, Inc.$141
- Cerapedics Inc.$126
- Zimmer Biomet$98
- plus $170 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,00017%
- Travel & lodging$4,94242%
- Food & beverage$4,81341%
- Education$991%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 93 | $8,932 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 94 | $1,593 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 16 | $794 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $141 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $126 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $98 |
| Stryker | 3 | $80 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $61 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- XLIF$1,296
- Excelsius Robotics System$1,256
- Excelsius - GPS$935
- Modulus$500
- ALTERA$420
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$376
- PEEK Corpectomy$233
- EXCELSIUS$200
- CREO$136
- PRESTIGE LP CERVICAL DISC SYSTEM$134
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$100
How this compares
$11,854 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in San Jose
- 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
- Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
- Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M
- Rick DelamarterSanta Monica$2.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.