RxDoctor Payments Data

Barry Gardiner

Surgery · San Ramon, CANPI 1619068533

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $577,927 of the $602,064 with a category attached, or 96.0%. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 97.1% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $329,265 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $1,806 in 2023. Among surgery clinicians in CA 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.

$602,064in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 63 payments — averaging $9556.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$584K
  • Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$18K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$577,92796%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$22,4844%
  • Travel & lodging$1,4680%
  • Food & beverage$1860%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Johnson & Johnson61$584,486
Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.2$17,578

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

$602,064 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.

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