Has Ricardo Cacdac, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,928 in general payments to Ricardo Cacdac, MD across 40 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 Ricardo Cacdac, 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 Ricardo Cacdac, 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.

Ricardo Cacdac, MD

Surgery · Rancho Mirage, CANPI 1225130362

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (51.3%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 85.7% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $4,167 and has fallen 75.2% since, to $1,035 in 2025.

$6,928in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $173.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$6K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$800
THD America, Inc.$113
Johnson & Johnson$35
BD$23
Coloplast$22

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,55651%
Food & beverage$87313%
Education$2,50036%

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	29	$5,936
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$800
THD America, Inc.	1	$113
Johnson & Johnson	2	$35
BD	1	$23
Coloplast	1	$22

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

$6,928 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$281,461

Medicare patients

455

Services billed

1,289

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	86	$516
Hydrocortisone	12	$277
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	27	$238
Cephalexin	43	$209
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	16	$179
Levofloxacin	29	$112
Neomycin Sulfate	29	$109
Metronidazole	33	$93

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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