Makoto Kawai, MD
Sleep Medicine · Palo Alto, CANPI 1215175856
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $996 of the $996 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Fukuda Denshi Co., Ltd.. That places this record below the midpoint for sleep medicine clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $1,477.
Across 1 payment — averaging $995.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Fukuda Denshi Co., Ltd.$996
Across 3 payments — averaging $46,752 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.
- Functional Neuromodulation Inc$140K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$996100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fukuda Denshi Co., Ltd. | 1 | $996 |
How this compares
$996 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 200 sleep medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BelsomraSuvorexant | 16 | $6,783 |
| Modafinil | 14 | $497 |
| Eszopiclone | 15 | $390 |
| Gabapentin | 26 | $318 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 29 | $301 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 21 | $240 |
| Methadone Hcl | 17 | $232 |
| Methylphenidate Hcl | 13 | $132 |
| Ropinirole Hcl | 12 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sleep medicine in Palo Alto
- Jerome HesterPalo Alto$74K
- Lisa ShivesSan Diego$1.4M
- Haramandeep SinghSan Ramon$1.1M
- Atul MalhotraSan Diego$771K
- Logan SchneiderStanford$506K
- Tony MasriLos Gatos$327K
- Sam KashaniSanta Monica$221K
- Emmanuel MignotStanford$135K
- Mark BuchfuhrerDowney$70K
- Clete KushidaStanford$58K
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.