Kenneth Sakata, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1811122666
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Intuitive Surgical accounts for 73.2% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,327 and has fallen 69.4% since, to $406 in 2025. Among critical care medicine clinicians in AZ 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 39 payments — averaging $109.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$642
- Boston Scientific$250
- ERBE USA Inc$180
- Teleflex LLC$33
- Ambu Inc.$23
- plus $14 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,10649%
- Food & beverage$2,16051%
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 | 27 | $3,124 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $642 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $250 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 2 | $180 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $14 |
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$2,352
- MONARCH$457
- EXALT Model D$116
- Erbe VIO3$100
How this compares
$4,265 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 175 critical care medicine providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 27 | $22,399 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 41 | $18,657 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 23 | $858 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other critical care medicine in Scottsdale
- Akshay MuralidharScottsdale$44K
- Rodrigo Cartin-CebaScottsdale$18K
- Reena BansalScottsdale$10K
- Heemesh SethScottsdale$4K
- Sandra TillScottsdale$3K
- Aditya GuptaScottsdale$3K
- Pritesh PatelScottsdale$3K
- Benjamin CantrillScottsdale$2K
- Randy WeismanScottsdale$2K
- Harseerat RataulScottsdale$2K
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.