Steven Shin, MD
Hand Surgery · Los Angeles, CANPI 1164407862
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,745,748 of the $2,805,312 with a category attached, or 62.2%. Arthrex accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among hand 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 639 payments — averaging $4390.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$2.8M
- DJO, LLC$650
- Liberty Surgical Inc.$356
- Stryker$237
- Extremity Medical$179
- Genentech USA, Inc.$141
- plus $941 from 15 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $24,459 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.
- Arthrex$49K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,745,74862%
- Consulting fees$85,7703%
- Speaking & faculty fees$879,59431%
- Travel & lodging$83,4743%
- Food & beverage$9,6940%
- Education$1,0330%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 611 | $2,802,807 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $650 |
| Liberty Surgical Inc. | 1 | $356 |
| Stryker | 3 | $237 |
| Extremity Medical | 1 | $179 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $141 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $123 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $116 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $113 |
| Micromed Inc | 4 | $91 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 2 | $89 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $73 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $69 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 1 | $69 |
| Goode Surgical Inc | 2 | $56 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Medwest Associates | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ARTHREX$7,545,619
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS HAND & WRIST ANCHORS$153,131
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS SOFT TISSUE ANCHORS$83,649
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS TRAUMA MINI FRAGMENT$83,536
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS SOFT TISSUE DISPOSABLE KITS$83,536
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS HAND & WRIST SWIVELOCKS$68,167
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS HAND & WRIST MINI FRAGMENT$35,457
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS HAND & WRIST OTHER$34,207
- CAPITAL CONSUMABLES CONSUMABLES RF BRF$1,038
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS TRAUMA PATELLA FRACTURE$575
- IMAGING & RESECTION EQUIPMENT NANO SYSTEMS NANO CAMERA KIT$500
- KinematX$179
- Perjeta$141
- TECENTRIQ$141
- Accelero-None$123
- CINCHLOCK$118
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS HAND & WRIST FRACTURE MANAGEMENT$117
- BIOLOGICS CONSUMABLES BONE REPAIR CELLULAR BONE GRAFTING KIT$114
- CINCHLOCK SS$111
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS SOFT TISSUE IB LIGAMENT AUGMENTATION$104
How this compares
$2,805,312 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 249 hand surgery 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 hand surgery in Los Angeles
- Prosper BenhaimLos Angeles$492K
- Raymond RavenLos Angeles$310K
- Luke NicholsonLos Angeles$117K
- Ryan DellamaggioraLos Angeles$61K
- Eugene TsaiLos Angeles$26K
- Ali AzadLos Angeles$19K
- Milan StevanovicLos Angeles$14K
- Neil JonesLos Angeles$9K
- Amy LaddStanford$1.4M
- Emilie CheungStanford$1.1M
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.