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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $58,675 in general payments to David Cooke, MD across 66 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 Cooke, 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 Cooke, 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 Cooke, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Sacramento, CANPI 1831316181

Payments from drug & device makers

$58,675in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 66 payments — averaging $889.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$41K
Intuitive Surgical$7K
AstraZeneca$5K
Medtronic$4K
Edwards Lifesciences$296
Conmed Corporation$216
plus $942 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$5,4029%
Speaking & faculty fees$45,82878%
Travel & lodging$5841%
Food & beverage$3,7936%
Education$3,0685%

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
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	15	$40,706
Intuitive Surgical	19	$7,174
AstraZeneca	8	$5,493
Medtronic	9	$3,848
Edwards Lifesciences	3	$296
Conmed Corporation	2	$216
Genentech USA, Inc.	3	$211
Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc	1	$201
Genentech, Inc.	2	$169
Davol Inc.	1	$159
Boston Scientific	1	$122
Atricure, Inc.	1	$58
Baxter Healthcare	1	$22

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

$58,675 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$59,582

Medicare patients

124

Services billed

359

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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Sacramento

Allen MorrisSacramento$350K
Frank SlachmanSacramento$347K
Bob KiaiiSacramento$247K
Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$1.4M
Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$963K
Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$901K

See the full list for California →

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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