Stefan Mindea
Neurological Surgery · Stanford, CANPI 1730330804
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $614,806 of the $614,806 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Globus Medical. 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 24 payments — averaging $25,617 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$615K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$614,806100%
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 | 24 | $614,806 |
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.
- CREO$294,908
- CREO MIS Stabilization System$179,093
- CREO MIS$140,805
How this compares
$614,806 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.
Other neurological surgery in Stanford
- Stephen RyuStanford$847K
- Michael LimStanford$325K
- Gerald GrantStanford$254K
- John RatliffStanford$223K
- John AdlerStanford$205K
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Larry KhooLos Angeles$2.8M
- Samy AbdouSan Diego$2.4M
- Bret AbshireMurrieta$2.3M
- William TaylorSan Diego$2.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.