Has Reza Ronaghi, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $389,962 in general payments to Reza Ronaghi, MD across 353 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Reza Ronaghi, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Reza Ronaghi, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Reza Ronaghi, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Santa Monica, CANPI 1326305541

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (51.4%), speaking fees and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 86.2% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $188,294, more than ten times the $4,437 reported in 2019. Among pulmonary disease 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.

$389,962in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 353 payments — averaging $1104.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$336K
Boston Scientific$31K
Pulmonx Corporation$14K
Covidien LP$3K
Cook Incorporated$2K
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation$2K
plus $2K from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$15,4614%
Speaking & faculty fees$113,50029%
Grants$29,8388%
Travel & lodging$17,2954%
Food & beverage$13,6173%
Education$200,25051%

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	301	$336,118
Boston Scientific	8	$31,002
Pulmonx Corporation	11	$14,028
Covidien LP	8	$2,816
Cook Incorporated	4	$2,265
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation	4	$1,973
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas	11	$1,310
Olympus America Inc.	3	$205
Medtronic	2	$123
Ambu Inc.	1	$121

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

$389,962 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,261 pulmonary disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$185,725

Medicare patients

421

Services billed

1,442

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
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol	25	$9,517
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	39	$845
Prednisone	26	$100
Azithromycin	12	$54

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pulmonary disease in Santa Monica

Tao HeSanta Monica$214K
Rodrigo Garcia TomeSanta Monica$92K
Samuel LouieSacramento$2.8M
Shyamsunder SubramanianTracy$1.5M
Toby MaherLos Angeles$1.3M
Rajkumar DasguptaPasadena$930K
Hoang leFountain Valley$814K
Kevin FussellEncinitas$788K
Revati ShreeniwasStanford$726K
David PhamWestminster$571K

See the full list for California →

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.

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