Has Vedat Deviren, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,912,957 in general payments to Vedat Deviren, MD across 547 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 Vedat Deviren, MD 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 Vedat Deviren, MD 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.

Vedat Deviren, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · San Francisco, CANPI 1730230459

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,310,823 of the $2,912,957 with a category attached, or 79.3%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alphatec Spine, Inc at 35.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,084,096 and has fallen 91.8% since, to $88,895 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.

$2,912,957in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 547 payments — averaging $5325.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alphatec Spine, Inc$1M
Medtronic$1M
Globus Medical$808K
Medicrea USA, Corp.$57K
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$9K
Axis Spine Technologies Inc.$5K
plus $8K from 11 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$2,310,82379%
Consulting fees$456,77616%
Speaking & faculty fees$9,5000%
Travel & lodging$111,6754%
Food & beverage$23,7731%
Entertainment$4100%

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
Alphatec Spine, Inc	403	$1,022,291
Medtronic(2 entities)	31	$1,004,934
Globus Medical	31	$807,505
Medicrea USA, Corp.	25	$56,829
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	17	$8,785
Axis Spine Technologies Inc.	2	$4,923
Mirus, LLC	4	$3,006
Cerapedics Inc.	2	$1,553
Stryker	14	$1,071
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	5	$660
Johnson & Johnson	6	$560
Carlsmed, Inc.	1	$210
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$144
Amplify Surgical, Inc.	2	$131
Spineology Inc.	1	$123
Bioventus LLC	1	$117
Spineart USA Inc	1	$115

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.

How this compares

$2,912,957 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$411,049

Medicare patients

171

Services billed

1,172

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.

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Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
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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.

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