Afshin Molkara, MD
Surgery · Loma Linda, CANPI 1194755280
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 62 payments — averaging $124.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$778
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$598
- Medtronic$491
- BD$407
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$318
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,05314%
- Food & beverage$4,09553%
- Education$2,53433%
- Gifts$90%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 13 | $4,002 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 11 | $778 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $598 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $491 |
| BD | 5 | $407 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $318 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $199 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $160 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $150 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $128 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $125 |
| Abbott | 1 | $87 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $79 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $59 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $51 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,347
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$719
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$719
- Lutonix Drug Coated Balloon$590
- BioMimics 3D Vascular Stent System$160
- Azur CX Detachable$150
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$146
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$144
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$144
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$144
- C3 Delivery System$126
- Renal - PD$125
- Endurant$108
- Auryon Laser System 100-120 Vac$101
How this compares
$7,690 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.
Medicare billing
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.
Other surgery in Loma Linda
- Christian BianchiLoma Linda$350K
- Marcos MichelottiLoma Linda$224K
- Timothy ChuterSan Francisco$8.9M
- Peter StockSan Francisco$6.5M
- Santiago HorganSan Diego$2.8M
- Kenneth DeckLaguna Hills$2.4M
- Daniel RiskinSan Jose$2.2M
- Michael DemeureNewport Beach$1.7M
- Rock LiuHayward$1.6M
- David LouriePasadena$1.4M
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.