Hector Ludi, MD
Surgery · Loma Linda, CANPI 1740216068
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $16,000 of the $20,302 with a category attached, or 78.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 95.4% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $17,836 and has fallen 88.9% since, to $1,972 in 2025.
Across 49 payments — averaging $414.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$19K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$490
- Davol Inc.$207
- Atricure, Inc.$79
- Johnson & Johnson$75
- Covidien LP$59
- plus $17 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,89114%
- Food & beverage$1,4117%
- Education$16,00079%
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 | 30 | $19,375 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 11 | $490 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $207 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $75 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $59 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $17 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$16,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,053
- ARISTA$185
How this compares
$20,302 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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.
Other surgery in Loma Linda
- Christian BianchiLoma Linda$338K
- Marcos MichelottiLoma Linda$224K
- Andre NguyenLoma Linda$148K
- 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
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.