Aziz Ghaly, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · West Hollywood, CANPI 1669538997
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 325 payments — averaging $85.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$13K
- Medtronic$3K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Artivion, Inc.$945
- plus $3K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,89014%
- Food & beverage$23,76386%
- Education$700%
- Gifts$170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 158 | $13,203 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 45 | $3,393 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 39 | $2,794 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 13 | $2,356 |
| Abbott | 24 | $2,211 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 8 | $945 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 10 | $393 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 5 | $312 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $292 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 4 | $240 |
| Cerus Corporation | 2 | $235 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $235 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 4 | $222 |
| Ancora Heart, Inc. | 1 | $164 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $161 |
| Xvivo Perfusion Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $86 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $59 |
| BD | 1 | $40 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Impella$7,124
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,019
- CoreValve Evolut$1,389
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$734
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$627
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$603
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$572
- Epic$514
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$372
- Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$292
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$271
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$241
- Indigo System$235
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$222
- XIENCE SIERRA$172
- INTERCEPT BLOOD SYSTEM FOR PLATELETS$162
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$161
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$161
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$145
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$143
How this compares
$27,740 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 12 | $48 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 32 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in West Hollywood
- Pedro CatarinoWest Hollywood$254K
- Andrew BrownleeWest Hollywood$243K
- Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
- Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
- Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$1.4M
- Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$963K
- Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
- Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
- Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$901K
- Michael FischbeinPalo Alto$899K
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.