Brian Palafox, MD
General Surgery · Orange, CANPI 1568424422
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 357 payments — averaging $113.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$14K
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
- Abiomed$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Avanos Medical$2K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- plus $12K from 38 others
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.
How this compares
$40,455 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 167 general 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.
Other general surgery in Orange
- Tanya AnandBakersfield$1.2M
- Daniel SwartzFresno$83K
- Daniel MarcusMarina del Rey$43K
- Houshmand NaimLos Angeles$33K
- Carlos CorveraSan Francisco$25K
- Stevan ClarkLos Angeles$16K
- Katayoun ToosieOceanside$13K
- Yeong AhnLos Angeles$12K
- Jane KakkisFountain Valley$12K
- Michael DeveraLoma Linda$11K
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.