Mihir Desai, MD
Urology · Los Angeles, CANPI 1679669014
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $1,348,464 of the $1,471,255 with a category attached, or 91.7%. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 95.2% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,208,120 and has fallen 98.2% since, to $22,072 in 2025. Among urology clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 116 payments — averaging $12,683 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$1.4M
- Procept Biorobotics Corporation$35K
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$30K
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Conmed Corporation$267
- plus $34 from 1 others
Across 38 payments — averaging $6005.62 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.
- Procept Biorobotics Corporation$198K
- Teleflex LLC$30K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$97,1477%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,348,46492%
- Travel & lodging$19,2131%
- Food & beverage$3,4300%
- Education$3,0000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 62 | $1,400,902 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 36 | $34,619 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 4 | $29,944 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $3,514 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $1,975 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $267 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $34 |
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.
- AquaBeam Robotic System$26,608
- Monarch Platform$25,898
- MONARCH$15,768
- AQUABEAM SYSTEM$7,680
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,437
- AIRSEAL$267
- CONMED SPECIMEN RETRIEVAL$119
How this compares
$1,471,255 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,324 urology 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 urology in Los Angeles
- Arie BelldegrunLos Angeles$1.8M
- Stuart HoldenLos Angeles$1.1M
- William AronsonLos Angeles$540K
- Amir LebastchiLos Angeles$478K
- Nazy ZomorodianLos Angeles$309K
- Jeffrey Loh-DoyleLos Angeles$308K
- Siamak DaneshmandLos Angeles$306K
- Karim ChamieLos Angeles$291K
- Brian ShuchLos Angeles$166K
- Robert ReiterLos Angeles$145K
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.