Brant Putnam
Surgery · Torrance, CANPI 1457407934
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $5,665 of the $8,056 with a category attached, or 70.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 82.8% of it on its own, with 25 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,775 and has fallen 94.9% since, to $345 in 2025.
Across 62 payments — averaging $129.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$197
- AbbVie$158
- Z-medica, LLC$120
- Teleflex LLC$108
- Vioptix Inc$85
- plus $716 from 20 others
Across 76 payments — averaging $3529.60 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.
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$268K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$240%
- Speaking & faculty fees$190%
- Travel & lodging$7439%
- Food & beverage$1,60520%
- Education$5,66570%
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 | 12 | $6,672 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 7 | $197 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $158 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 4 | $120 |
| Teleflex LLC | 5 | $108 |
| Vioptix Inc | 1 | $85 |
| Ceribell, Inc. | 2 | $77 |
| CLR Medical, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $57 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $55 |
| Stryker | 1 | $51 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $50 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Medivance, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Activ Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $27 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$5,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$737
How this compares
$8,056 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.
Other surgery in Torrance
- 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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.