Hong Liu, MD
Anesthesiology · Sacramento, CANPI 1790761344
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $44,600 of the $65,291 with a category attached, or 68.3%. Masimo Corporation accounts for 71.1% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $31,202 and has fallen 53.5% since, to $14,516 in 2025. Among anesthesiology clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 61 payments — averaging $1070.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Masimo Corporation$46K
- Edwards Lifesciences$16K
- BD$2K
- Abiomed$248
- Mindray DS USA, Inc.$105
- Biotronik Inc.$74
Across 29 payments — averaging $12,344 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.
- Edwards Lifesciences$319K
- BD$39K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,82515%
- Speaking & faculty fees$44,60068%
- Travel & lodging$9,40814%
- Food & beverage$1,4582%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Masimo Corporation | 21 | $46,452 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 20 | $15,919 |
| BD | 11 | $2,493 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $248 |
| Mindray DS USA, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 3 | $74 |
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.
- SET and rainbow SET$36,190
- SedLine$30,452
- Patient SafetyNet System$13,000
- HemoSphere$2,204
- rainbow Acoustic Monitoring$2,190
- EMMA and ISA$2,000
- Bridge$1,000
- Impella$108
How this compares
$65,291 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,717 anesthesiology 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 anesthesiology in Sacramento
- Kamal MaheshwariSacramento$117K
- Harold HumphreysSacramento$88K
- Neal FlemingSacramento$79K
- Sundeep TumberSacramento$68K
- Jack JengSouth San Francisco$1.3M
- Roger PhillipsChico$434K
- David DeyhimyLaguna Hills$344K
- Maxime CannessonLos Angeles$336K
- Alexander RoherSan Diego$282K
- Moody MakarLos Angeles$252K
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.