Houshmand Naim, MD
General Surgery · Los Angeles, CANPI 1063591519
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $24,050 of the $32,718 with a category attached, or 73.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 82.4% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $20,337 and has fallen 95.0% since, to $1,018 in 2025. Among general surgery 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 148 payments — averaging $221.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$27K
- Medtronic$3K
- Novo Nordisk$449
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$341
- Johnson & Johnson$330
- Baxter Healthcare$309
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,1403%
- Food & beverage$7,52823%
- Education$24,05074%
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 | 41 | $26,947 |
| Medtronic | 31 | $2,699 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $449 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 20 | $341 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $330 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $309 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $302 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 2 | $246 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $242 |
| Teleflex LLC | 11 | $213 |
| Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $143 |
| Amgen | 1 | $137 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $125 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $118 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $48 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$18,080
- DAVINCI XI$8,500
- Signia$1,179
- LigaSure$846
- NUPLAZID$246
- Wegovy$234
- Sonicision$161
- TITAN SGS STANDARD GASTRIC STAPLER$144
- LUMRYZ$143
- Repatha$137
- QULIPTA$125
- UBRELVY$125
- REZDIFFRA$118
- DYNACORD$117
- ZEPBOUND$114
How this compares
$32,718 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 167 general 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 general surgery in Los Angeles
- Stevan ClarkLos Angeles$16K
- Yeong AhnLos Angeles$12K
- Robert RettigLos Angeles$9K
- Atta NawabiLos Angeles$6K
- Matthew WilsonLos Angeles$2K
- Kelly HuynhLos Angeles$509
- Daniel DunkelmanLos Angeles$20
- Daniel SwartzFresno$83K
- Daniel MarcusMarina del Rey$43K
- Brian PalafoxOrange$40K
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.