Mark Eichler, MD
Surgery · Vancouver, WANPI 1285832956
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 71 payments — averaging $171.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Teleflex LLC$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$797
- Johnson & Johnson$373
- plus $460 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,26027%
- Food & beverage$3,29427%
- Education$5,63346%
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 | 15 | $7,158 |
| Teleflex LLC | 16 | $1,264 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $1,113 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $1,022 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $797 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 10 | $373 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 1 | $158 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $138 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $33 |
| Amgen | 1 | $28 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 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$5,411
- DAVINCI XI$1,500
- LigaSure$931
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$902
- Titan SGS$378
- TITAN SGS BAILOUT CHUCK$377
- TITAN SGS STANDARD GASTRIC STAPLER$158
How this compares
$12,186 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 549 surgery providers in Washington.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 32 | $91 |
| Gabapentin | 30 | $86 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $62 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Vancouver
- Toni Storm DickersonVancouver$57K
- Martin SchreiberTacoma$2.4M
- Matthew KleinSeattle$328K
- Kevin CliveSilverdale$289K
- Adnan AlseidiSeattle$240K
- Prakash GattaTacoma$212K
- Aileen HwangIssaquah$195K
- Rajeev MisraSilverdale$183K
- Amir BastawrousSeattle$133K
- Alejandro ArnoldCovington$131K
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.