Albert Amini, MD
Surgery · Chandler, AZNPI 1386890556
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (38.4%), consulting fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 50.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $20,243 and has fallen 95.8% since, to $857 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 185 payments — averaging $481.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$45K
- Endogastric Solutions, Inc$25K
- Medtronic$7K
- Covidien LP$5K
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$4K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$26,20029%
- Speaking & faculty fees$34,27038%
- Travel & lodging$1,6112%
- Food & beverage$6,7658%
- Education$20,00022%
- Gifts$2900%
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 | 40 | $45,289 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 23 | $24,517 |
| Medtronic | 42 | $7,208 |
| Covidien LP | 21 | $5,483 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 4 | $3,520 |
| Davol Inc. | 15 | $1,302 |
| AbbVie | 16 | $360 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 4 | $305 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $282 |
| Creo Medical Inc. | 1 | $212 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 1 | $202 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $177 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 2 | $117 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $30 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $12 |
| Distalmotion US | 1 | $10 |
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$44,620
- ESOPHYX$27,747
- Signia$3,533
- Phasix Mesh$943
- Olympus$299
- SPEEDBOAT$212
- CONCERTOTM$174
- 4K CAMERA HEAD$149
- Parietex$145
- DVI CABLE 3M$120
- LINX Reflux Management System$114
How this compares
$89,136 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 614 surgery providers in Arizona.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 19 | $241 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 23 | $136 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Chandler
- Gregory RobertsonChandler$58K
- Shawn StevensonChandler$42K
- Edgar HernandezChandler$31K
- Hadi NajafianSun City$1.6M
- Conrad BallecerPhoenix$893K
- Jennifer PrestonPhoenix$320K
- Ramon MoureloCasa Grande$317K
- Simon LavotshkinYuma$309K
- Morgan CriggerPhoenix$235K
- Ryan PinnellGlendale$225K
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.