Jeffrey Gutman, MD
General Surgery · Los Gatos, CANPI 1083649248
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,105 of the $1,549 with a category attached, or 71.4%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 28.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $695 and has fallen 76.0% since, to $167 in 2024.
Across 40 payments — averaging $38.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$443
- Acell, Inc.$412
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$127
- Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited$88
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$83
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$63
- plus $333 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$44329%
- Food & beverage$1,10571%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 1 | $443 |
| Acell, Inc. | 11 | $412 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $127 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 4 | $88 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $83 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $56 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $39 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $22 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $15 |
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
$1,549 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 121 | $1,083 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 13 | $82 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general surgery in Los Gatos
- Daniel SwartzFresno$83K
- Daniel MarcusMarina del Rey$43K
- Brian PalafoxOrange$40K
- Houshmand NaimLos Angeles$33K
- Carlos CorveraSan Francisco$25K
- Stevan ClarkLos Angeles$16K
- Yeong AhnLos Angeles$12K
- Jane KakkisFountain Valley$12K
- Michael DeveraLoma Linda$11K
- Monica EigelbergerWalnut Creek$9K
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.