Max Seaton, MD
Surgical Oncology · Spokane Valley, WANPI 1184980260
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $6,000 of the $9,296 with a category attached, or 64.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 76.1% of it on its own, with 50 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $7,643 and has fallen 93.6% since, to $486 in 2025.
Across 112 payments — averaging $83.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Johnson & Johnson$204
- AstraZeneca$127
- Lilly USA, LLC$118
- Novartis$108
- Genentech USA, Inc.$105
- plus $2K from 45 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,05911%
- Food & beverage$2,23724%
- Education$6,00065%
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.
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.
- DAVINCI XI$6,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,040
How this compares
$9,296 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 31 surgical oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 37 | $186 |
| LoperamideLoperamide Hcl | 16 | $129 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical oncology in Spokane Valley
- Andrew FrancisSpokane Valley$296
- Cary KaufmanBellingham$171K
- Flavio RochaSeattle$27K
- Evan OngSeattle$18K
- Benjamin AndersonSeattle$15K
- Kevin LabadieSeattle$11K
- Richard SmithTacoma$10K
- Jeremy SharibSeattle$9K
- Harveshp MogalSeattle$8K
- Meghan FlanaganSeattle$7K
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.