Daniel Cucher, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Chandler, AZNPI 1437460862
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (51.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 64.0% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 16 payments — averaging $365.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- CSL Behring$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$82
Across 4 payments — averaging $25,770 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.
- AstraZeneca$56K
- Instrumentation Laboratory Company$47K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,50343%
- Food & beverage$3446%
- Education$3,00051%
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 | 7 | $3,745 |
| CSL Behring | 7 | $2,020 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $82 |
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$3,694
How this compares
$5,847 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 45 surgical critical care providers in Arizona.
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 surgical critical care in Chandler
- Mark GunstChandler$45K
- Adil LokhandwalaChandler$20K
- John WattChandler$8K
- Nicholas ThiessenChandler$6K
- Charles HuChandler$2K
- Amanda Marsh WilliamsChandler$945
- Vafa GhaemmaghamiChandler$60
- Marc MatthewsPhoenix$247K
- Francis Ali-OsmanPhoenix$104K
- Arpana JainTucson$41K
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.