Steven Garfin, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · San Diego, CANPI 1679515829
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $24,930 of the $28,400 with a category attached, or 87.8%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation at 50.8% of the total.
Across 51 payments — averaging $556.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$14K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$7K
- Eisai CO., LTD.$2K
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$2K
- Theradaptive, Inc.$1K
- Si-bone, Inc.$1K
- plus $1K from 9 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $3582.86 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.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$25K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$24,93088%
- Travel & lodging$1,6106%
- Food & beverage$1,8226%
- Gifts$380%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 25 | $14,435 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $7,391 |
| Eisai CO., LTD. | 1 | $1,650 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $1,500 |
| Theradaptive, Inc. | 2 | $1,205 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $1,010 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $392 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $192 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $132 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $58 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $15 |
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.
- M6-C$6,989
- Cambria NanoMetalene$5,625
- OsteoStrand$5,500
- OsteoBallast$3,000
- Cambria Anterior Cervical Interbody System$2,875
- Barricaid Annular Closure Device$1,500
- OsteoAdapt$1,167
- iFuse Implant$922
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$448
- M6-C Artificial Cervical Disc$326
- MULTIPLE$324
- CONDUIT$250
- Excelsius Deformity$132
- SYMPHONY$107
How this compares
$28,400 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in San Diego
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Ramin RaiszadehSan Diego$785K
- Jean-Jacques AbitbolSan Diego$595K
- Oliver TannousSan Diego$566K
- Richard AllenSan Diego$471K
- Neil TayyabSan Diego$283K
- Vinko ZlomislicSan Diego$206K
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
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.