Who Paid My Doc
Behrooz Akbarnia
Orthopaedic Surgery La Jolla, CA Medical Doctor
NPI 1457316374 CMS profile 66351
4130 La Jolla Village Dr, Suite 300, La Jolla, CA 92037
General payments
$2,626,700
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$597,666
Through program year 2025, Behrooz Akbarnia of La Jolla, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,626,700 across 117 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $597,666 across 7 holdings.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.
General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
13 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $264,595 | 10 | |
| 2024 | General | $272,259 | 14 | |
| 2023 | General | $271,751 | 17 | |
| 2022 | General | $249,820 | 15 | |
| 2021 | General | $295,012 | 12 | |
| 2020 | General | $295,902 | 19 | |
| 2019 | General | $977,361 | 30 | |
| 2025 | Ownership | $20,064 | 2 | |
| 2024 | Ownership | $135,245 | 1 | |
| 2023 | Ownership | $126,885 | 1 | |
| 2022 | Ownership | $115,473 | 1 | |
| 2021 | Ownership | $100,000 | 1 | |
| 2020 | Ownership | $100,000 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Behrooz Akbarnia
- Orthopaedic Surgery median
- Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Behrooz Akbarnia were reported at $264,595. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.
Show as a table
| Year | Behrooz Akbarnia | Orthopaedic Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $977,361 | $644 | $140–$2,844 | $163 |
| 2020 | $295,902 | $312 | $75–$1,860 | $114 |
| 2021 | $295,012 | $520 | $117–$2,495 | $132 |
| 2022 | $249,820 | $598 | $128–$2,731 | $149 |
| 2023 | $271,751 | $461 | $128–$2,264 | $160 |
| 2024 | $272,259 | $497 | $134–$2,475 | $164 |
| 2025 | $264,595 | $563 | $147–$2,717 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Records
117 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.