Ali Mahtabifard, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Orange, CANPI 1801872593
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $33,010 of the $40,550 with a category attached, or 81.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 86.5% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $16,470 and has fallen 92.2% since, to $1,289 in 2024.
Across 63 payments — averaging $643.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$35K
- Davol Inc.$3K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$296
- Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation$246
- Medtronic$199
- plus $182 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,0503%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,0007%
- Travel & lodging$2,1715%
- Food & beverage$1,3193%
- Education$33,01081%
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 | 43 | $35,081 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $3,496 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $1,050 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $296 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 3 | $246 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $199 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $61 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $29 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
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$34,623
- IMFINZI$1,050
- TYKE, PATCH, PLEDGET AND INTRACARDIAC$239
- Signia$173
- FUJIFILM$143
How this compares
$40,550 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.
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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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Orange
- John MauriceOrange$160K
- Amir AbolhodaOrange$130K
- Hari KeshavaOrange$73K
- Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
- Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
- Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
- Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
- Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$875K
- Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$764K
- Wilson TsaiWalnut Creek$680K
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.