Tom Norris
Orthopaedic Surgery · San Francisco, CANPI 1376723429
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $5,201,384 of the $5,318,368 with a category attached, or 97.8%. Stryker accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,091,094 and has fallen 67.0% since, to $360,492 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 161 payments — averaging $33,033 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5.3M
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$152
- Zimmer Biomet$61
Across 8 payments — averaging $626.15 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.
- Stryker$5K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$5,201,38498%
- Consulting fees$91,6502%
- Speaking & faculty fees$12,0000%
- Travel & lodging$12,5540%
- Food & beverage$7810%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker(2 entities) | 159 | $5,318,155 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 1 | $152 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $61 |
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.
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$3,375,767
- AEQUALIS$1,841,217
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$65,651
- R&D UPPER EXT$13,050
- SIMPLICITI$6,702
- BLUEPRINT PSI SYSTEM$3,300
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$750
- InSet System$152
How this compares
$5,318,368 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.
Other orthopaedic surgery in San Francisco
- Sigurd BervenSan Francisco$4.1M
- Vedat DevirenSan Francisco$2.9M
- Eugene WolfSan Francisco$988K
- James KellySan Francisco$826K
- Alexander TheologisSan Francisco$719K
- Utku KandemirSan Francisco$484K
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$13.6M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.