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.
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
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 | 221 | $198,374 |
| Covidien LP | 38 | $9,607 |
| Medtronic | 38 | $2,569 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $832 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 6 | $825 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $394 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 11 | $274 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 3 | $255 |
| Prescient Surgical | 1 | $142 |
| Novartis | 1 | $115 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $111 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $98 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $83 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $80 |
| Vertex | 3 | $69 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 2 | $54 |
| Activ Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $44 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $40 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| Precision Medical Products Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $20 |
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$195,468
- ProGrip$6,854
- Signia$941
- Senhance Surgical Robotics System$779
- LINX Reflux Management System$697
- Sonicision$461
- LigaSure$454
- iDrive$227
- CleanCision$142
- Parietene$139
- Permacol$132
- AbsorbaTack$116
- ENTRESTO$115
How this compares
$214,218 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.
Other surgery in West Hollywood
- Timothy ChuterSan Francisco$8.8M
- Santiago HorganSan Diego$2.8M
- Rock LiuHayward$1.6M
- David LouriePasadena$1.4M
- Andrea PakulaThousand Oaks$1.4M
- Siew-Ming LeeFresno$1.3M
- Beemen KhalilPalo Alto$1.1M
- John LiphamLos Angeles$942K
- Alexander NedopilLodi$682K
- Barry GardinerSan Ramon$602K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.