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

Richard Nussbaum

Sherman Oaks, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1972528297 CMS profile 180416

4955 Van Nuys Blvd, Suite 615, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

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General payments

$238,399

84 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$3,902

Paid to them · 1 record reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Richard Nussbaum of Sherman Oaks, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $238,399 across 84 general payments and $3,902 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.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $809 4
2024 General $13,466 6
2023 General $3,214 6
2022 General $27,155 14
2021 General $31,304 8
2021 Research $3,902 1
2020 General $78,658 15
2019 General $83,793 31

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Richard Nussbaum
  • California median
  • Middle half of California
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Richard Nussbaum were reported at $809. Among 98,626 California profiles paid that year, the median was $172 and the middle half received between $54 and $610.

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Year Richard Nussbaum California median Middle half National median
2019 $83,793 $161 $50–$652 $163
2020 $78,658 $114 $34–$392 $114
2021 $31,304 $137 $41–$509 $132
2022 $27,155 $152 $48–$573 $149
2023 $3,214 $162 $50–$581 $160
2024 $13,466 $162 $52–$583 $164
2025 $809 $172 $54–$610 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. RTI Surgical, Inc. $212,994 40 payments
  2. Xtant Medical Inc $16,460 7 payments
  3. Precision Spine, Inc. $4,387 15 payments
  4. Silony Medical Corp. $2,597 3 payments
  5. Relievant Medsystems, Inc. $579 5 payments
  6. Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. $377 2 payments
  7. Spineart USA Inc $377 3 payments
  8. AxioMed LLC $244 1 payment
  9. Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC $138 1 payment
  10. Cerapedics, Inc. $126 1 payment
  11. Other $120 6 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $217,610 32 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $12,829 6 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $4,755 14 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $3,204 32 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. FORTILINK-C IBF SYSTEM musculoskeletal $82,618 14 payments
  2. STREAMLINE MIS SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM musculoskeletal $72,537 9 payments
  3. FORTILINK-C IBF SYSTEM musculoskeletal $56,112 8 payments
  4. Vault-C $3,863 13 payments
  5. COFLEX INTERLAMINAR TECHNOLOGY, 10MM $1,094 7 payments
  6. Intracept $553 4 payments
  7. STREAMLINE MIS SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM musculoskeletal $501 1 payment
  8. REFORM POCT SYSTEM $411 1 payment
  9. Freedom Lumbar Disc $244 1 payment
  10. PERLA TL $200 2 payments
  11. Other $719 12 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. RTI Surgical, Inc. $3,902 1 payment

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 3 drugs

Part D claims

48

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$417

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

31.2%

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
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 15 $156
Gabapentin Generic 14 $146
Hydromorphone Hcl Generic 19 $116

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 · 32 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$34,346

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

112

Average age 72

Services billed

278

56 women, 56 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 44%
Ischemic heart disease 37%
Osteoporosis 23%
Chronic kidney disease 22%
Depression 21%
Atrial fibrillation 17%

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

85 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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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