Wesley Phipatanakul, MD
Sports Medicine · Loma Linda, CANPI 1932135654
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $516,365 of the $669,421 with a category attached, or 77.1%. Arthrex accounts for 99.3% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $162,183, 2.1 times the $77,607 reported in 2019. Among sports medicine 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 798 payments — averaging $838.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$665K
- Empire Medical, Inc$3K
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$296
- Stryker$202
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$168
- Exactech, Inc.$160
- plus $833 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$86,53613%
- Speaking & faculty fees$516,36577%
- Travel & lodging$52,9138%
- Food & beverage$12,1282%
- Education$1,4790%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 766 | $664,811 |
| Empire Medical, Inc | 5 | $2,950 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 2 | $296 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 4 | $202 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $168 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| Vital Orthopedics LLC | 3 | $132 |
| Sportstek Medical, Inc | 1 | $127 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 1 | $112 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $93 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $72 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| My01 Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Vertex | 1 | $23 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
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.
- ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY & FRACTURE REVERS$11,000
- ARTHREX$1,250
- InSet System$228
- ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY & FRACTURE UNIVERS$225
- FREEDOM WRIST$168
- PYRO MCP$168
- TSSM - TOTAL SHOULDER SYSTEM METAL$168
- TITAN-SHOULDER$168
- External Fixation System$168
- EQUINOXE$160
- SHOULDER IMPLANTS SPEEDBRIDGE COMPOSITE ANCHORS$120
- BIOLOGICS CONSUMABLES BONE REPAIR CELLULAR BONE GRAFTING KIT$111
- AEQUALIS$109
How this compares
$669,421 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 662 sports medicine 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.
Other sports medicine in Loma Linda
- Neal ElattracheLos Angeles$51M
- Nathaniel CohenLos Gatos$6.4M
- Thomas KnappSanta Monica$2.5M
- Michael FreehillStanford$1.6M
- Allan MishraMenlo Park$1.5M
- Heinz Hoeneckela Jolla$1.4M
- Seth ShermanStanford$1.1M
- Stephan YacoubianBurbank$1M
- Stephen Snydervan Nuys$922K
- Deryk JonesSan Carlos$915K
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.