Has Abie Avraham Mendelsohn, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $14,712 in general payments to Abie Avraham Mendelsohn, MD across 74 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Abie Avraham Mendelsohn, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Abie Avraham Mendelsohn, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Abie Avraham Mendelsohn, MD

Otolaryngology · Los Angeles, CANPI 1396934824

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (54.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 77.9% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,224 and has fallen 84.1% since, to $991 in 2025. Among otolaryngology clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$14,712in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $198.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$11K
Stryker$821
Medtronic$580
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$468
Neurent Medical Limited$213
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$197
plus $971 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,78319%
Food & beverage$3,92927%
Education$8,00054%

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Intuitive Surgical	33	$11,462
Stryker	10	$821
Medtronic	6	$580
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	4	$468
Neurent Medical Limited	6	$213
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	1	$197
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	2	$165
Baxter Healthcare	1	$125
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	3	$123
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$115
Haag-streit USA, Inc.	1	$100
Acclarent, Inc	2	$87
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc	1	$87
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$66
KARL Storz Endoscopy-america	1	$54
Cook Medical LLC	1	$50

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

Da Vinci Surgical System$10,932
SCOPIS ENT$361
Inspire$318
XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$251
LigaSure$148
SINUVA$148
STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$141
ENTELLUS MEDICAL FOCESS SINUSCOPE$137
CoolSeal Generator$134
Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$126
FLOSEAL$125
NEUROMARK Device$120
NEUROMARK Radiofrequency Console$120
DUPIXENT$115

How this compares

$14,712 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,021 otolaryngology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$156,976

Medicare patients

235

Services billed

1,013

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Ipratropium Bromide	157	$3,267
Azelastine Hcl	161	$2,259
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	19	$2,175
Fluticasone Propionate	143	$1,497
Omeprazole	76	$816
Famotidine	66	$320
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	24	$214
Diclofenac Sodium	12	$179
Mupirocin	13	$55

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Jeffrey SuhLos Angeles$223K
Dennis TangLos Angeles$209K
Elisabeth FerenceLos Angeles$111K
Arthur WuLos Angeles$67K
Richard MichelinLos Angeles$57K
Maie St JohnLos Angeles$39K
Kevin GrafmillerLos Angeles$27K
Philip KnottLos Angeles$24K
Uttam SinhaLos Angeles$18K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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