Babak Sarani, MD
Surgery · Washington, DCNPI 1942246814
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (57.3%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Acumed LLC at 33.7% of the total. Among surgery clinicians in DC 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 127 payments — averaging $571.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acumed LLC$24K
- Haemonetics Corporation$21K
- Medtronic$12K
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- CSL Behring$4K
- Belmont Instrument LLC$2K
- plus $4K from 9 others
Across 19 payments — averaging $28,429 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- CSL Behring$523K
- Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Development America, Inc.$17K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,1979%
- Speaking & faculty fees$41,60057%
- Travel & lodging$18,90926%
- Food & beverage$2,9084%
- Education$3,0004%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acumed LLC | 42 | $24,489 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 17 | $21,349 |
| Medtronic | 13 | $11,535 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 14 | $5,262 |
| CSL Behring | 19 | $4,230 |
| Belmont Instrument LLC | 5 | $1,969 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $1,440 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $609 |
| Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. | 3 | $554 |
| Curvafix, Inc. | 1 | $433 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $365 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $146 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $139 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $55 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $38 |
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.
- RibLoc$23,485
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$19,356
- BioBridge$15,878
- TEG5000 Hemostasis Analyzer$13,416
- Nellcor$5,319
- AcuTie$4,163
- TEG Manager$3,972
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,163
- FORTIVA PORCINE DERMIS$1,440
- SonarMed AirWave$1,300
- ABTHERA$609
- ER-REBOA PLUS$523
- RibLoc U Plus$445
- CurvaFix IM Implant$433
- AcuTie II$277
- ANDEXXA$162
- FLOSEAL$139
How this compares
$72,614 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 117 surgery providers in District of Columbia.
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 surgery in Washington
- Jonathan JohnsonWashington$399K
- Christian ShultsWashington$258K
- Parag BhanotWashington$131K
- Frederick BrodyWashington$98K
- Megan QuintanaWashington$49K
- Terrence FullumWashington$46K
- Jeffrey ShuppWashington$40K
- Adeel ShamimWashington$38K
- Bruce AbellWashington$36K
- Yewande AlimiWashington$34K
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.