Dennis Kim
Surgical Critical Care · Los Angeles, CANPI 1851680318
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (55.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 55.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,349 and has fallen 80.0% since, to $670 in 2022.
Across 53 payments — averaging $101.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Teleflex LLC$1K
- Cook Medical LLC$501
- Z-medica, LLC$211
- AbbVie$137
- Avanos Medical$126
- plus $358 from 10 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $26,647 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$142K
- Pfizer$18K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$170%
- Speaking & faculty fees$190%
- Travel & lodging$2955%
- Food & beverage$2,05538%
- Education$3,00056%
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 | 1 | $3,000 |
| Teleflex LLC | 19 | $1,053 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 5 | $501 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 7 | $211 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $137 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $126 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Stryker | 1 | $51 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $39 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Neotract Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Ceribell, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $11 |
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
$5,385 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 141 surgical critical care providers in California.
Other surgical critical care in Los Angeles
- Demetrios DemetriadesLos Angeles$192K
- Scott CunneenLos Angeles$35K
- Nicholas NissenLos Angeles$26K
- Daniel MarguliesLos Angeles$15K
- Meghan LewisLos Angeles$14K
- Ara KoLos Angeles$9K
- Tejal BrahmbhattLos Angeles$9K
- James BardesLos Angeles$8K
- Kazuhide MatsushimaLos Angeles$5K
- Rodrigo AlbanLos Angeles$3K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.