RxDoctor Payments Data

Beemen Khalil, MD

Surgery · Palo Alto, CANPI 1427296110

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $872,450 of the $1,077,776 with a category attached, or 80.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $239,730, more than ten times the $5,900 reported in 2019. 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.

$1,077,776in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,163 payments — averaging $926.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$1.1M
  • Medtronic$701
  • TELA Bio, Inc.$256
  • Nevro Corp.$219
  • Integra Lifesciences Corporation$149
  • Teleflex LLC$116
  • plus $112 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$57,5005%
  • Travel & lodging$126,82512%
  • Food & beverage$20,7092%
  • Education$872,45081%
  • Gifts$2920%

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.

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

$1,077,776 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$63,481
Medicare patients
116
Services billed
205

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Hydrocortisone11$135
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine25$78
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen16$77

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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