Catherine Oberg, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Torrance, CANPI 1558633503
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 545 payments — averaging $838.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$334K
- Medtronic$81K
- Cook Incorporated$15K
- Boston Scientific$15K
- Olympus Medical Systems Corporation$8K
- Pulmonx Corporation$1K
- plus $4K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$23,9385%
- Speaking & faculty fees$277,43661%
- Grants$8,3332%
- Travel & lodging$36,4678%
- Food & beverage$9,7482%
- Education$101,00022%
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 | 273 | $333,552 |
| Medtronic | 197 | $81,151 |
| Cook Incorporated | 14 | $14,658 |
| Boston Scientific | 14 | $14,611 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corporation | 9 | $7,829 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 12 | $1,391 |
| Olympus Corporation | 6 | $1,310 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 7 | $1,292 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1 | $440 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $292 |
| Noah Medical Corporation | 5 | $267 |
| Body Vision Medical Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $39 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $33 |
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$270,693
- ILLUMISITE$66,003
- DA VINCI SP$60,015
- superDimension$10,308
- GENERAL - BILIARY DEVICES$8,333
- GENERAL PULMONARY$5,796
- Blue Rhino$3,825
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$675
- Single Use Aspiration Needle NA-U200H$440
- Pulmonx Endobronchial Valve EBV$370
- ION$300
- CHARTIS CATHETER$275
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$275
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$275
- Wayne$176
- ACQUIRE$118
- EXALT BX 2$108
- GALAXY$107
How this compares
$456,921 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,261 pulmonary disease 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 pulmonary disease in Torrance
- William StringerTorrance$1M
- Toby MaherLos Angeles$27.6M
- David PhamWestminster$5.9M
- Andrew WachtelLos Angeles$5.9M
- Aaron WeinbergIrvine$5.1M
- Michael RothLos Angeles$4.5M
- Namita SoodSacramento$3.7M
- Edward FedermanSan Diego$3.6M
- Sanjay VadgamaSherman Oaks$3.3M
- Rajan SaggarLos Angeles$3.3M
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.