Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Kristen Combs

Orthopaedic Surgery Pasadena, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1639676968 CMS profile 11289200

909 S Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena, CA 91105

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General payments

$16,654

95 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Kristen Combs of Pasadena, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $16,654 across 95 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 77th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $106 2
2024 General $5,949 33
2023 General $5,586 23
2022 General $3,813 36
2021 General $1,200 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Kristen Combs
  • Orthopaedic Surgery median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Kristen Combs were reported at $106. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Kristen Combs Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $0 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $1,200 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $3,813 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $5,586 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $5,949 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $106 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $7,657 10 payments
  2. Stryker Corporation $3,146 40 payments
  3. Arthrex, Inc. $1,285 20 payments
  4. Saxum Surgical, Inc. $1,217 2 payments
  5. Micromed Inc $1,200 1 payment
  6. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $1,112 8 payments
  7. Becton, Dickinson and Company $334 3 payments
  8. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $211 2 payments
  9. Globus Medical, Inc. $187 2 payments
  10. Integra LifeSciences Corporation $164 2 payments
  11. Other $141 5 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Education $5,733 3 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $5,065 79 payments
  3. Grant $3,333 1 payment
  4. Travel and Lodging $2,522 12 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. VARIAX $1,593 17 payments
  2. RIGIDLOOP $1,099 7 payments
  3. FAST-FIX $742 5 payments
  4. PROFYLE $469 3 payments
  5. T2 $419 4 payments
  6. GAMMA $386 6 payments
  7. HEALICOIL $350 3 payments
  8. ACUFEX Meniscal Root Repair $350 3 payments
  9. MICRORAPTOR Sports Med Hip $350 3 payments
  10. MICRORAPTOR Sports Med Hip $350 3 payments
  11. Other $2,933 41 payments

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

Records

95 reported

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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

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