Clinton Kakazu
Anesthesiology · Torrance, CANPI 1376554261
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 119 payments — averaging $59.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$958
- Abbott$875
- Abiomed$793
- Medtronic$375
- Davol Inc.$157
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1001%
- Food & beverage$6,92499%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 59 | $2,716 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $958 |
| Abbott | 11 | $875 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $793 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $375 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $157 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $145 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $124 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $100 |
| Comsort, Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Amgen | 3 | $78 |
| Merck | 4 | $76 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $73 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $48 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $44 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $43 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $42 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Stryker | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $14 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Impella$793
- SternaLock 360$382
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$366
- Epic$346
- CoreValve Evolut$323
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$306
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$189
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$158
- Progel Applicator Spray Tips$157
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$155
- RibFix Blu$141
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$127
- (6342) Intrasight Integ$124
- FFRct$117
- BRIDION$100
How this compares
$7,024 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,717 anesthesiology providers in California.
Other anesthesiology in Torrance
- Kirtika PatelTorrance$110K
- Kamal MaheshwariSacramento$1.9M
- Gregory HammerStanford$1.8M
- Neal FlemingSacramento$1.7M
- Joseph AntogniniSacramento$1.4M
- Daniel NguyenDuarte$1.4M
- Jack JengSouth San Francisco$1.3M
- Eilon GabelLos Angeles$1.2M
- Philip BicklerSan Francisco$853K
- Joseph RinehartNewport Beach$824K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.