Has Kambiz Behzadi, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,984 in general payments to Kambiz Behzadi, MD across 40 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Kambiz Behzadi, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Kambiz Behzadi, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Kambiz Behzadi, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Pleasanton, CANPI 1265437396

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.1%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Evolution Surgical, Inc at 34.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,636 and has fallen 97.1% since, to $77 in 2025.

$3,984in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $99.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Evolution Surgical, Inc$1K
Arthrex$1K
Zimmer Biomet$653
Stryker$315
BD$171
Heraeus Medical, LLC.$119
plus $201 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$65116%
Food & beverage$2,03451%
Education$1,29933%

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
Evolution Surgical, Inc	10	$1,391
Arthrex	14	$1,136
Zimmer Biomet	5	$653
Stryker	5	$315
BD	2	$171
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$119
Lima USA, Inc.	1	$100
Medtronic	1	$82
Johnson & Johnson	1	$20

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

$3,984 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$313,375

Medicare patients

373

Services billed

9,319

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
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	72	$2,143
Celecoxib	46	$1,344
Gabapentin	81	$783
Meloxicam	238	$578
Etodolac	19	$245
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	23	$224
Methylprednisolone	37	$222
Prednisone	40	$117
Cephalexin	17	$115
Diclofenac Sodium	15	$103
Ibuprofen	26	$93
Amoxicillin	24	$37
Tramadol Hcl	14	$33

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Pleasanton

Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
Robert GorabOrange$13.6M
Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
Nirav AminPlacentia$5.6M
Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
Peter NewtonSan Diego$4.2M
Sigurd BervenSan Francisco$4.1M

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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.

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