Industry payments · Medtronic · California · 2025

What did Medtronic pay clinicians in California?

In 2025, Medtronic reported $8.7M in general payments to 6,013 California clinicians across 31,466 payments, per CMS Open Payments data (excluding one-time buyouts). The typical (median) clinician on the list received $118. Below: where the money went, and who it went to by specialty and city. No clinician is named on this page; the ranked, named list is what the app is for.

$8.7M
General payments, excl. buyouts (2025)
6,013
California clinicians paid
$118
Median clinician total
↓ 28%
Dollars vs 2024
The breakdown

Where the money went.

General payments by category, and the products named on them. A payment is a disclosed relationship, not evidence a clinician uses any product.

Payment mix in California

Speaker / services · 150 clinicians$2.1M
Royalty / license · 14 clinicians$2.1M
Consulting · 134 clinicians$1.3M
Food & beverage · 5,859 clinicians$1.2M
Grant · 99 clinicians$1.1M
Travel & lodging · 709 clinicians$968K

Top products named on payments

CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$736K
BIOMEDICUS$285K
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$278K
UNID_PASS$256K
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$250K
MAZOR X SYSTEM$196K
HARMONY$192K
PIPELINE$177K

Product dollars span all payment types, and a payment naming several products counts toward each, so these rows don't sum to the total above.

Research: associated funding

Separate from the general payments above: $5.1M in research funding was associated with 118 California clinicians named on studies as recipient or principal investigator. Research dollars fund the study, not the person.

The names behind these 6,013 clinicians are in the same public record. Prospect 811 puts them one search away: every California clinician Medtronic paid, ranked by dollars, cross-linked to what each one actually bills Medicare, with specialty and phone number.

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Who gets paid

The specialties and cities.

Top specialties paid

Cardiovascular Disease Physician520 clinicians
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program482 clinicians
Internal Medicine Physician450 clinicians
Surgery Physician422 clinicians
Physician Assistant388 clinicians

Where the paid clinicians are

Los Angeles655 clinicians
San Diego390 clinicians
San Francisco285 clinicians
Sacramento226 clinicians
Stanford181 clinicians
Where these numbers come from. Everything on this page is computed from CMS's public Open Payments (Sunshine Act) data for program year 2025. Federal law requires manufacturers and group purchasing organizations to report payments and transfers of value to physicians and other covered clinicians; CMS publishes the records each year. A reported payment is a disclosed financial relationship required by law. It is not evidence of anything improper, and it says nothing about whether a clinician uses, prefers, or prescribes any product. Totals are general payments only and exclude acquisition buyouts and debt forgiveness (one-time events, not working relationships). (Separately, $122K in buyout or debt-forgiveness rows was excluded from the totals here.) Research dollars are shown separately as associated funding: money tied to a study on which a clinician is named as recipient or principal investigator. It funds the study, not the person. Product rows count a payment toward every product named on it, across all payment types, so product rows do not add up to the total. Medtronic figures combine the 11 corporate entities that report under it, normalized so the whole company shows up as one. Clinicians whose federal enrollment record no longer lists a US practice state are not in state rollups. Prospect 811 organizes public data; it doesn't add to or alter it. Not affiliated with or endorsed by CMS. Full detail on the data page.

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