Phillip Lau
Anesthesiology · Pasadena, CANPI 1831119700
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $47,150 of the $71,231 with a category attached, or 66.2%. Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated accounts for 98.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $22,322, more than ten times the $191 reported in 2019. Among anesthesiology 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 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
- Jeffrey ChingPasadena$72K
- Forrest SawyerPasadena$70K
- Leonard KimPasadena$53K
- Neil SinglaPasadena$52K
- Jack JengSouth San Francisco$1.3M
- Roger PhillipsChico$434K
- David DeyhimyLaguna Hills$344K
- Maxime CannessonLos Angeles$336K
- Alexander RoherSan Diego$282K
- Moody MakarLos Angeles$252K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.