Has Harold Tabaie, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $119,626 in general payments to Harold Tabaie, MD across 271 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 Harold Tabaie, 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 Harold Tabaie, 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.

Harold Tabaie, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Los Angeles, CANPI 1346286663

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by other: $105,347 of the $119,626 with a category attached, or 88.1%. Merit Medical Systems Inc accounts for 88.1% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $106,984 and has fallen 99.1% since, to $922 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$119,626in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 271 payments — averaging $441.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Merit Medical Systems Inc$105K
Cook Medical LLC$6K
Terumo Medical Corporation$3K
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$2K
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$979
BD$772
plus $2K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,2783%
Food & beverage$11,0029%
Other$105,34788%

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
Merit Medical Systems Inc	1	$105,347
Cook Medical LLC	124	$5,651
Terumo Medical Corporation	27	$3,184
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	47	$1,985
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	23	$979
BD	9	$772
Abbott	18	$704
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$199
Philips North America LLC	3	$142
BTG International Inc.	1	$115
Vasorum USA Inc.	2	$114
Angiodynamics, Inc.	2	$112
Boston Scientific	5	$91
Cordis US CORP.	3	$77
Argon Medical Devices, Inc.	1	$61
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas	1	$49
Venclose Inc.	1	$24
Bsn Medical Inc	1	$19

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

$119,626 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$6,890,205

Medicare patients

146

Services billed

4,283

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
XareltoRivaroxaban	25	$22,587
Diclofenac Sodium	12	$2,345
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	203	$1,963
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil	17	$213
Tramadol Hcl	172	$118
Alprazolam	105	$37

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Los Angeles

Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$608K
Harmik SoukiasianLos Angeles$577K
Jay LeeLos Angeles$462K
Raymond LeeLos Angeles$291K
Bryan BurtLos Angeles$138K
Richard SheminLos Angeles$112K
Anthony KimLos Angeles$66K
Jonathan PraegerLos Angeles$60K
Craig BakerLos Angeles$58K
Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M

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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