Who Paid My Doc
Michael Kurtz
Sports Medicine Garden Grove, CA Doctor of Osteopathy
NPI 1194814020 CMS profile 189999
12495 Valley View St, Garden Grove, CA 92845
General payments
$16,930
Research payments
$10,237
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$234,720
Through program year 2025, Michael Kurtz of Garden Grove, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $16,930 across 895 general payments and $10,237 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $234,720 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 98th percentile of Sports Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
11 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $1,592 | 70 | |
| 2024 | General | $1,766 | 77 | |
| 2023 | General | $2,140 | 105 | |
| 2022 | General | $2,947 | 159 | |
| 2022 | Research | $6,500 | 1 | |
| 2021 | General | $3,852 | 197 | |
| 2021 | Research | $336 | 1 | |
| 2020 | General | $2,244 | 136 | |
| 2020 | Research | $422 | 1 | |
| 2019 | General | $2,389 | 151 | |
| 2019 | Research | $2,979 | 4 |
Beside peers
- Michael Kurtz
- Sports Medicine median
- Middle half of Sports Medicine
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Michael Kurtz were reported at $1,592. Among 1,257 Sports Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $114 and the middle half received between $39 and $293.
Show as a table
| Year | Michael Kurtz | Sports Medicine median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $2,389 | $119 | $35–$362 | $163 |
| 2020 | $2,244 | $77 | $24–$275 | $114 |
| 2021 | $3,852 | $104 | $28–$340 | $132 |
| 2022 | $2,947 | $94 | $31–$272 | $149 |
| 2023 | $2,140 | $91 | $34–$271 | $160 |
| 2024 | $1,766 | $126 | $38–$294 | $164 |
| 2025 | $1,592 | $114 | $39–$293 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 110 drugsPart D claims
4,621
Drug cost
$448,126
Branded share of claims
26.4%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ozempic Semaglutide | Brand | 52 | $51,465 | |
| Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol | Brand | 39 | $43,711 | |
| Rybelsus Semaglutide | Brand | 23 | $41,105 | |
| Eliquis Apixaban | Brand | 51 | $37,459 | |
| Vraylar Cariprazine Hcl | Brand | 20 | $37,443 | |
| Janumet Sitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | Brand | 27 | $35,859 | |
| Trintellix Vortioxetine Hydrobromide | Brand | 41 | $23,742 | |
| Jardiance Empagliflozin | Brand | 30 | $23,739 | |
| Linzess Linaclotide | Brand | 16 | $19,892 | |
| Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab | Brand | 21 | $13,972 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 110 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 105,120 Part D prescribers listed as Family Practice; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 136 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$323,302
Medicare patients
448
Services billed
8,453
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 71% | |
| Arthritis | 44% | |
| Diabetes | 33% | |
| Heart failure | 24% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 19% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 17% | |
| COPD | 15% | |
| Cancer | 15% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle 90653 | Office | 27 | 27 | $2,209 |
| Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg J0702 | Office | 44 | 134 | $733 |
| Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg J0696 | Office | 53 | 464 | $166 |
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg J1030 | Office | 12 | 25 | $126 |
| Injection, ketorolac tromethamine, per 15 mg J1885 | Office | 31 | 202 | $108 |
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 | Office | 22 | 971 | $97 |
| Injection, vitamin b-12 cyanocobalamin, up to 1000 mcg J3420 | Office | 25 | 29 | $24 |
| Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 | Office | 19 | 21 | $16 |
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.
Payments and prescribing
First 5 of 30 products · payments 2024Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIRSUPRA |
|
$185 | — | — |
| MOUNJARO |
|
$163 | — | — |
| XIFAXAN |
|
$128 | — | — |
| SPRAVATO |
|
$113 | — | — |
| XYOSTED |
|
$108 | — | — |
A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.
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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.