Luis Savastano, MD
Neurological Surgery · San Francisco, CANPI 1790040632
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $45,300 of the $71,724 with a category attached, or 63.2%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Microvention, Inc. at 39.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $35,101 and has fallen 83.3% since, to $5,874 in 2025.
Across 145 payments — averaging $494.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Microvention, Inc.$28K
- Stryker$21K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$10K
- Philips North America LLC$6K
- GE HealthCare$5K
- Medtronic$1K
- plus $631 from 4 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $78,451 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.
- Medtronic$122K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$113K
Across 3 payments — averaging $476,667 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Endovascular Engineering Inc.$1.4M
- Endovascular Engineering, Inc.$0
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$45,30063%
- Travel & lodging$22,32131%
- Food & beverage$4,1036%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Microvention, Inc. | 7 | $28,048 |
| Stryker | 85 | $20,528 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 19 | $10,321 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $5,552 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $5,253 |
| Medtronic | 16 | $1,391 |
| Endovascular Engineering Inc. | 9 | $298 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $237 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $46 |
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.
- (9547) IGT Systems Undivided$5,466
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$4,200
- SYNCHRO SELECT$4,200
- SURPASS EVOLVE$2,322
- TARGET$1,368
- NA$1,200
- FLOW DIVERTERS$800
- POWER-PRO$774
- Pipeline$654
- TGS$600
- ARTIS icono biplane$372
- Penumbra System$237
- ONYX 18$223
- SOMATOM On.site$211
- AXS INFINITY LS$168
- BALLOON CATHETER$148
- AXS CATALYST 7$104
How this compares
$71,724 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 773 neurological 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 neurological surgery in San Francisco
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Praveen MummaneniSan Francisco$1.1M
- Lee TanSan Francisco$682K
- Jang YoonSan Francisco$227K
- Larry KhooLos Angeles$2.8M
- Samy AbdouSan Diego$2.4M
- Bret AbshireMurrieta$2.3M
- William TaylorSan Diego$2.1M
- Tooraj GravoriEncino$2M
- Ali MesiwalaRancho Cucamonga$1.5M
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.