Has David Beffa, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $130,931 in general payments to David Beffa, MD across 270 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean David Beffa, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about David Beffa, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

David Beffa, MD

Surgery · Sacramento, CANPI 1184821977

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $92,585 of the $130,931 with a category attached, or 70.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 95.6% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $59,114 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $431 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.

$130,931in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 270 payments — averaging $484.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$125K
AbbVie$5K
Johnson & Johnson$291
Boston Scientific$212
Acell, Inc.$184
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$168
plus $317 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$92,58571%
Travel & lodging$14,40811%
Food & beverage$7,8986%
Education$16,04012%

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	197	$125,220
AbbVie(2 entities)	51	$4,539
Johnson & Johnson	4	$291
Boston Scientific	2	$212
Acell, Inc.	3	$184
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	7	$168
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	2	$140
Teleflex LLC	1	$65
Conmed Corporation	1	$63
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$27
Lexington Medical, Inc.	1	$23

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

$130,931 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$200,056

Medicare patients

619

Services billed

1,081

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	17	$421
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	54	$275
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	76	$205
Ketorolac Tromethamine	23	$192
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	29	$178
Azithromycin	59	$177
Methylprednisolone	18	$111
Prednisone	42	$104
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	13	$93
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	33	$79
Cephalexin	11	$57
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	18	$51
Tamsulosin Hcl	12	$45
Lisinopril	13	$25

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Sacramento

Michael BenekeSacramento$234K
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

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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.

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