Has Stuart Gold received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $872,264 in general payments to Stuart Gold across 420 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 Stuart Gold 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 Stuart Gold 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.

Stuart Gold

Orthopaedic Surgery · Torrance, CANPI 1790874923

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (47.0%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 61.1% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic 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.

$872,264in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 420 payments — averaging $2076.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$533K
Stryker$263K
Extremity Medical$75K
Johnson & Johnson$309
Globus Medical$256
Medartis Inc.$223
plus $186 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$311,65036%
Speaking & faculty fees$409,99447%
Travel & lodging$134,06215%
Food & beverage$16,5582%

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
Smith+Nephew	258	$533,131
Stryker	114	$263,356
Extremity Medical	26	$74,804
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	5	$309
Globus Medical	9	$256
Medartis Inc.	2	$223
My01 Inc.	3	$129
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$24
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	1	$16
ERMI LLC	1	$16

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.

EVOS$563,044
GAMMA$217,870
T2$199,161
AXSOS$190,002
TRIGEN$154,737
TRIGEN InterTAN$152,711
HOFFMANN$144,185
VARIAX$132,301
EVOS MINI$116,435
SPATIAL FRAME$77,363
Taylor Spatial Frame$61,734
PRO$58,594
TRIGEN Meta-Nail$50,596
SMART TSF$48,299
META TAN$47,637
EX-FIX$43,594
AUGMENT INJECTABLE$40,500
CANNULATED SCREWS$34,750
Conquest FN$34,750
Peri-Loc$32,887

How this compares

$872,264 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Other orthopaedic surgery in Torrance

Tiffany RogersTorrance$1.2M
Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
Robert GorabOrange$13.6M
Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
Nirav AminPlacentia$5.6M
Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
Peter NewtonSan Diego$4.2M

See the full list for California →

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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