Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Daniel Barba

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Escondido, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1407128580 CMS profile 244728

355 E Grand Ave Ste 1, Escondido, CA 92025

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General payments

$1,482,323

464 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Daniel Barba of Escondido, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,482,323 across 464 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

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 96th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $307,416 86
2024 General $273,462 80
2023 General $231,448 86
2022 General $216,957 67
2021 General $188,269 52
2020 General $128,282 34
2019 General $136,488 59

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Daniel Barba
  • Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Daniel Barba were reported at $307,416. Among 1,704 Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles paid that year, the median was $2,061 and the middle half received between $347 and $14,651.

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Year Daniel Barba Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median Middle half National median
2019 $136,488 $2,106 $337–$18,608 $163
2020 $128,282 $1,213 $156–$15,082 $114
2021 $188,269 $1,834 $271–$15,617 $132
2022 $216,957 $2,015 $320–$17,036 $149
2023 $231,448 $1,925 $336–$14,599 $160
2024 $273,462 $2,110 $341–$12,483 $164
2025 $307,416 $2,061 $347–$14,651 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Aurora Spine, Inc. $613,447 57 payments
  2. Globus Medical, Inc. $466,888 193 payments
  3. Orthofix Medical, Inc. $229,044 79 payments
  4. Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation $97,318 72 payments
  5. Djo, LLC $25,761 21 payments
  6. Spineart SA $17,656 7 payments
  7. Spineart USA Inc $15,748 10 payments
  8. NuVasive, Inc. $8,845 7 payments
  9. The Institute of Musculoskeletal Science and Education $4,625 3 payments
  10. Camber Spine Technologies $1,506 5 payments
  11. Other $1,486 10 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $774,692 94 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $689,737 105 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $12,815 260 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $5,079 5 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. ZIP Orthopaedic Fixation System $255,521 21 payments
  2. Hedron IA $176,187 10 payments
  3. ZIP/SOLO-L $151,455 15 payments
  4. ZIP Orthopaedic Fixation System $117,974 12 payments
  5. Hedron Spine/Spine Surgery $113,386 5 payments
  6. Physio-Stim $97,789 12 payments
  7. Meridian $96,470 37 payments
  8. AURORA SPINE $88,497 9 payments
  9. HEDRON Spine $78,859 7 payments
  10. HEDRON Spine/Joint $60,235 5 payments
  11. Other $192,676 289 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 11 drugs

Part D claims

749

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$7,413

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

28.7%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Gabapentin Generic 277 $2,640
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 157 $1,961
Tramadol Hcl Generic 132 $662
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 47 $644
Celecoxib Generic 23 $608
Methylprednisolone Generic 41 $329
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 16 $169
Ibuprofen Generic 12 $142
Acetaminophen-Codeine Acetaminophen With Codeine Brand 11 $121
Meloxicam Generic 18 $113

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 11 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 41 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$299,715

Of which drugs: $2,855

Medicare patients

665

Average age 76

Services billed

17,949

389 women, 276 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Diabetes 27%
Depression 27%
Osteoporosis 24%
Ischemic heart disease 21%
Chronic kidney disease 21%
Atrial fibrillation 20%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 Office 155 15,331 $1,510
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg J1030 Office 97 280 $1,199
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg J1040 Office 22 22 $146

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

464 reported

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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