Avo Artinyan, MD
Surgical Oncology · Duarte, CANPI 1609934942
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 36 payments — averaging $38.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$348
- AbbVie$331
- Merck$169
- Johnson & Johnson$139
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$125
- Vioptix Inc$47
- plus $223 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,382100%
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 | 5 | $348 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $331 |
| Merck | 9 | $169 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $139 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Vioptix Inc | 2 | $47 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $27 |
| Prescient Surgical | 1 | $26 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $25 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $13 |
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$147
- Vascepa$125
How this compares
$1,382 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 209 surgical oncology 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 47 | $247 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $66 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 21 | $31 |
| Latanoprost | 12 | $19 |
| Metronidazole | 26 | $18 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 11 | $9 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 11 | $4 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical oncology in Duarte
- Yanghee WooDuarte$131K
- Yuman FongDuarte$87K
- Jennifer TsengDuarte$57K
- Gagandeep SinghDuarte$38K
- Maheswari SenthilDuarte$32K
- Rahim AimaqDuarte$14K
- Yuchen YouDuarte$10K
- Ryan LammDuarte$9K
- Laura EssermanSan Francisco$60.9M
- Robina SmithFullerton$5.8M
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.