Alex Friedman
Surgical · Greenbrae, CANPI 1376967653
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 132 payments — averaging $25.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$429
- Intuitive Surgical$343
- AstraZeneca$293
- Abbott$269
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$245
- plus $772 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,15193%
- Education$2507%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 57 | $1,051 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 11 | $429 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $343 |
| AstraZeneca | 17 | $293 |
| Abbott | 13 | $269 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 4 | $245 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $171 |
| BREG, Inc | 1 | $123 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $80 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $77 |
| Amgen | 3 | $56 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $37 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $24 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bigfoot Biomedical Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Stryker | 1 | $18 |
| Gilead | 1 | $17 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Cequr Corporation | 1 | $11 |
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
$3,401 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 729 surgical providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 26 | $14,380 |
| Gabapentin | 20 | $770 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 20 | $404 |
| Lisinopril | 30 | $277 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 23 | $213 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 27 | $188 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 13 | $184 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 13 | $77 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 16 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical in Greenbrae
- Wanda ZhaoGreenbrae$5K
- Lauren AmicoVista$989K
- Cheyanne MallasWest Hollywood$199K
- Laura PietrzakMarina del Rey$63K
- Jane HartiganSanta Rosa$27K
- Kenny NgoPalo Alto$25K
- Crispin MarRancho Santa Margarita$23K
- Robert FrostRancho Santa Margarita$22K
- Audie LeeSan Francisco$21K
- Gregory BrunetSanta Barbara$20K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.