Industry payments · Zimmer Biomet · California · 2025

What did Zimmer Biomet pay clinicians in California?

In 2025, Zimmer Biomet reported $4.5M in general payments to 901 California clinicians across 4,623 payments, per CMS Open Payments data (excluding one-time buyouts). The typical (median) clinician on the list received $147. 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.

$4.5M
General payments, excl. buyouts (2025)
901
California clinicians paid
$147
Median clinician total
↑ 25%
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

Consulting · 26 clinicians$2.2M
Education · 92 clinicians$1.1M
Royalty / license · 17 clinicians$660K
Travel & lodging · 199 clinicians$305K
Food & beverage · 862 clinicians$189K
Speaker / services · 1 clinician$25K

Top products named on payments

Persona$294K
G7$201K
Arcos$200K
Avenir$183K
ROSA$147K
Tapestry$136K
Subscapularis Repair Kits$136K
Juggerknotless Soft Anchor$121K

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: $281K in research funding was associated with 17 California clinicians named on studies as recipient or principal investigator. Research dollars fund the study, not the person.

The names behind these 901 clinicians are in the same public record. Prospect 811 puts them one search away: every California clinician Zimmer Biomet 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

Orthopaedic Surgery Physician295 clinicians
Foot & Ankle Surgery Podiatrist110 clinicians
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program81 clinicians
Podiatrist50 clinicians
Physician Assistant49 clinicians

Where the paid clinicians are

Los Angeles67 clinicians
San Diego42 clinicians
Orange30 clinicians
Sacramento27 clinicians
La Jolla27 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, $17K 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. Zimmer Biomet figures combine the 5 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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