Daniel Margulies, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Los Angeles, CANPI 1568446474
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (38.6%), education and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 71.1% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgical critical care clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 71 payments — averaging $217.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Prescient Surgical$4K
- Teleflex LLC$254
- Medtronic$252
- Kerecis Limited$145
- Prytime Medical Devices, Inc.$108
- plus $158 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,55423%
- Travel & lodging$5,96939%
- Food & beverage$1,69211%
- Education$4,25027%
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 | 50 | $10,995 |
| Prescient Surgical | 2 | $3,554 |
| Teleflex LLC | 11 | $254 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $252 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $145 |
| Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $66 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $52 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $27 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
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$5,962
- DAVINCI XI$4,250
- CleanCision$3,554
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$435
- LigaSure$175
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$145
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$145
- DA VINCI SP$124
- ER-REBOA PLUS$108
How this compares
$15,465 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 141 surgical critical care 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 surgical critical care in Los Angeles
- Demetrios DemetriadesLos Angeles$192K
- Scott CunneenLos Angeles$35K
- Nicholas NissenLos Angeles$26K
- Meghan LewisLos Angeles$14K
- Ara KoLos Angeles$9K
- Tejal BrahmbhattLos Angeles$9K
- James BardesLos Angeles$8K
- Dennis KimLos Angeles$5K
- Kazuhide MatsushimaLos Angeles$5K
- Rodrigo AlbanLos Angeles$3K
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.