Thomas Schmalzried
Orthopaedic Surgery · Los Angeles, CANPI 1841225042
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $3,938,837 of the $3,962,120 with a category attached, or 99.4%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 99.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,427,235 and has fallen 69.8% since, to $431,038 in 2025. 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.
Across 59 payments — averaging $67,155 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$3.9M
- Pacira Cryotech Incorporated$8K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
- Myoscience Inc.$5K
- Smith+Nephew$127
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$77
- plus $26 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,938,83799%
- Consulting fees$20,1881%
- Travel & lodging$2,1490%
- Food & beverage$9470%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 40 | $3,943,525 |
| Pacira Cryotech Incorporated | 10 | $8,493 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $5,122 |
| Myoscience Inc. | 1 | $4,750 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $127 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $77 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $26 |
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.
- PINNACLE$3,940,148
- SUMMIT$3,938,837
- IOVERA SYSTEM$13,129
- ATTUNE$7,898
- Journey II CR$127
- POLARSTEM$127
- Oxinium Hips$127
- Reflection$127
- EMPHASYS$102
How this compares
$3,962,120 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Los Angeles
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
- David SkaggsLos Angeles$2.6M
- David ThordarsonLos Angeles$2.5M
- Edward McPhersonLos Angeles$1.2M
- Daniel AllisonLos Angeles$1.1M
- Justin SalimanLos Angeles$912K
- Charles MoonLos Angeles$760K
- Andrew SpitzerLos Angeles$738K
- Yashar JavidanLos Angeles$685K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.