Eric Pham, MD
Surgery · Orange, CANPI 1124055041
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $9,000 of the $10,268 with a category attached, or 87.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 91.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $6,080 and has fallen 92.9% since, to $431 in 2025.
Across 31 payments — averaging $331.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Medtronic$357
- Novo Nordisk$121
- Davol Inc.$93
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$90
- Johnson & Johnson$89
- plus $161 from 5 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $3872.72 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.
- Amgen$4K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,26812%
- Education$9,00088%
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 | 14 | $9,357 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $357 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $121 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $89 |
| BD | 2 | $63 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $25 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 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$9,205
- Signia$129
- Saxenda$121
How this compares
$10,268 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 98 | $754 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 13 | $138 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Orange
- Ninh NguyenOrange$177K
- Andrew BarlebenOrange$175K
- 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
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.