Farhad Sigari
Otolaryngology · Marina del Rey, CANPI 1841224177
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 118 payments — averaging $55.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- Aerin Medical Inc.$613
- Medtronic$381
- Intersect ENT, Inc.$141
- Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$133
- Covidien LP$116
- plus $402 from 9 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $1988.43 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.
- Stryker$7K
- Arrinex, Inc.$7K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5009%
- Food & beverage$4,79491%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 86 | $4,782 |
| Aerin Medical Inc. | 8 | $613 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $381 |
| Intersect ENT, Inc. | 5 | $141 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $133 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $116 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $100 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $79 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $72 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Arrinex, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Neurent Medical Limited | 2 | $28 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Carestream Dental, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| GSK | 1 | $15 |
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
$6,569 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,021 otolaryngology providers in California.
Other otolaryngology in Marina del Rey
- Randall OwRoseville$4.3M
- Amir MoradiVista$2.6M
- Brian WeeksSan Diego$1.6M
- Charles LimbSan Francisco$1.5M
- Andrew BerosSan Diego$688K
- Paul SchalchChula Vista$573K
- Steven DavisTorrance$544K
- Arnaud BewleySacramento$541K
- Keith BlackwellLos Angeles$349K
- Kalpna DurairajSun Valley$348K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.