Barry Sanchez, MD
Surgery · Ventura, CANPI 1609934652
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $449,989 of the $581,572 with a category attached, or 77.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $193,509 and has fallen 69.2% since, to $59,551 in 2025. 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.
Across 704 payments — averaging $826.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$579K
- Covidien LP$2K
- Medtronic$815
- Davol Inc.$114
- Innovation Technologies Inc$113
- Novo Nordisk$70
- plus $40 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$36,1956%
- Travel & lodging$71,80912%
- Food & beverage$23,5634%
- Education$449,98977%
- Gifts$160%
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 | 673 | $578,501 |
| Covidien LP | 17 | $1,920 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $815 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $113 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $70 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $40 |
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$560,432
- DA VINCI SP$13,250
- Signia$1,216
- Endo GIA$332
- LigaSure$296
- Tacker$158
- ProGrip$146
- PHASIX$114
- Irrisept$113
How this compares
$581,572 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,363 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 19 | $124 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Ventura
- Timothy ChuterSan Francisco$8.8M
- Santiago HorganSan Diego$2.8M
- Rock LiuHayward$1.6M
- David LouriePasadena$1.4M
- Andrea PakulaThousand Oaks$1.4M
- Siew-Ming LeeFresno$1.3M
- Beemen KhalilPalo Alto$1.1M
- John LiphamLos Angeles$942K
- Alexander NedopilLodi$682K
- Barry GardinerSan Ramon$602K
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.