Thomas Golden, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Ventura, CANPI 1063578458
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 67 payments — averaging $110.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Micromed Inc$759
- Johnson & Johnson$330
- Medtronic$288
- plus $825 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5257%
- Food & beverage$5,15270%
- Education$1,72823%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc. | 7 | $1,834 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 24 | $1,786 |
| Stryker | 14 | $1,584 |
| Micromed Inc | 5 | $759 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $330 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $288 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 3 | $196 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $169 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $136 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $132 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Vericel Corporation | 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.
- PANGEA$413
- ROSA$359
- GAMMA$315
- T2 ALPHA$287
- Persona$278
- MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, INC.$272
- Dynasplint$169
- HOFFMANN$169
- T2$157
- O-ARM$154
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$143
- OSSEOTITE$140
- ADES Dual Mobility$139
- G7$138
- PRESTIGE LP CERVICAL DISC SYSTEM$134
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$132
- Avenir$125
- TFN-Advance$125
- ORTHOPEDIC CABLE / PERIPROSTHETIC SYSTEM$109
- APTUS$106
How this compares
$7,405 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 127 | $1,096 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 44 | $328 |
| Gabapentin | 30 | $169 |
| Meloxicam | 55 | $131 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 37 | $83 |
| Amoxicillin | 41 | $81 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 13 | $55 |
| Ibuprofen | 11 | $52 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 14 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Ventura
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$14.5M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.8M
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
- Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
- Sigurd BervenSan Francisco$4.1M
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.