RxDoctor Payments Data

Daniel Shouhed

Surgery · West Hollywood, CANPI 1740509900

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $163,172 of the $214,218 with a category attached, or 76.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.6% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $113,242 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $587 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$214,218in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 364 payments — averaging $588.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$198K
  • Covidien LP$10K
  • Medtronic$3K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$832
  • Asensus Surgical, Inc.$825
  • Johnson & Johnson$394
  • plus $2K from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$6,9003%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$15,0007%
  • Travel & lodging$11,1055%
  • Food & beverage$18,0418%
  • Education$163,17276%

General payments by program year

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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.

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.

How this compares

$214,218 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.

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