Hirra Ali, MD
Surgery · San Jose, CANPI 1134410376
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $30,250 of the $42,423 with a category attached, or 71.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 93.3% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $22,374, 4.1 times the $5,465 reported in 2019. Among 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.
Across 108 payments — averaging $392.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$40K
- Medtronic$1K
- Covidien LP$297
- Davol Inc.$288
- Acell, Inc.$181
- Elucent Medical$177
- plus $806 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0005%
- Travel & lodging$5,94514%
- Food & beverage$4,22810%
- Education$30,25071%
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 | 77 | $39,571 |
| Medtronic | 12 | $1,102 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $297 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $288 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $181 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $177 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 2 | $170 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 1 | $134 |
| KUB Technologies Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $112 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $91 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $18 |
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$26,708
- DAVINCI XI$11,500
- PlasmaBlade$761
- Savi SCOUT$239
- Dextile$158
- XENMATRIX$142
- Magseed$134
- Magtrace$134
- Parietene$132
- Mozart$122
- Hyalomatrix Wound Device$112
- PluroGel Burn and Wound Dressings$112
How this compares
$42,423 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 14 | $329 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in San Jose
- 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
- Alexander NedopilLodi$682K
- Barry GardinerSan Ramon$602K
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.