Phillip Lau
Anesthesiology · Pasadena, CANPI 1831119700
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 151 payments — averaging $471.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$70K
- Intuitive Surgical$238
- Johnson & Johnson$189
- Medtronic$159
- Edwards Lifesciences$153
- Acacia Pharma Inc$126
- plus $316 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,9158%
- Speaking & faculty fees$47,15066%
- Travel & lodging$13,95620%
- Food & beverage$4,1926%
- Education$180%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 128 | $70,051 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $238 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $189 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $159 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $153 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 1 | $126 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Draeger Medical Systems, Inc | 1 | $86 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $49 |
| Merck | 2 | $42 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $17 |
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.
How this compares
$71,231 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,717 anesthesiology providers in California.
Other anesthesiology in Pasadena
- Kamal MaheshwariSacramento$1.9M
- Gregory HammerStanford$1.8M
- Neal FlemingSacramento$1.7M
- Joseph AntogniniSacramento$1.4M
- Daniel NguyenDuarte$1.4M
- Jack JengSouth San Francisco$1.3M
- Eilon GabelLos Angeles$1.2M
- Philip BicklerSan Francisco$853K
- Joseph RinehartNewport Beach$824K
- Richard Applegate IiLoma Linda$810K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.