Akihiro Sugiyama, MD
Surgery · Moreno Valley, CANPI 1295152502
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,713 of the $4,094 with a category attached, or 66.3%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 35.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,525 and has fallen 53.4% since, to $1,178 in 2023.
Across 41 payments — averaging $99.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Intuitive Surgical$953
- Zimmer Biomet$834
- Abbott$162
- Access Pro Medical, LLC$156
- Acell, Inc.$132
- plus $422 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,71366%
- Food & beverage$1,38234%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,435 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $953 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $834 |
| Abbott | 1 | $162 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $156 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $132 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $94 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $67 |
| Tesaro, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 3 | $46 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Guard Medical Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $14 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
How this compares
$4,094 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 Moreno Valley
- Timothy ChuterSan Francisco$8.8M
- Santiago HorganSan Diego$2.8M
- Rock LiuHayward$1.6M
- David LouriePasadena$1.4M
- Andrea PakulaThousand Oaks$1.4M
- Siew-Ming LeeFresno$1.3M
- Beemen KhalilPalo Alto$1.1M
- John LiphamLos Angeles$942K
- Alexander NedopilLodi$682K
- Barry GardinerSan Ramon$602K
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.