Saber Ghiassi, MD
Surgery · Fairfield, CTNPI 1487812921
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $11,055 of the $17,549 with a category attached, or 63.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 70.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $11,030 and has fallen 62.3% since, to $4,160 in 2025.
Across 25 payments — averaging $701.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Davol Inc.$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$305
- Medtronic$193
- Johnson & Johnson$171
- Covidien LP$144
- plus $128 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,16024%
- Travel & lodging$1,5319%
- Food & beverage$8035%
- Education$11,05563%
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 | 14 | $12,449 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $4,160 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $305 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $193 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $171 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $144 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $110 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$10,750
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,504
- Sonicision$124
- Enseal$123
- Echelon Flex$123
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$123
How this compares
$17,549 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 289 surgery providers in Connecticut.
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 surgery in Fairfield
- Sherard ChiuFairfield$148K
- Nikhilesh SekharFairfield$140K
- Roselle CrombieFairfield$113K
- Alph EmmanuelFairfield$38K
- Jennifer SchwartzFairfield$10K
- John MortonNew Haven$970K
- Joseph AferzonPortland$712K
- Andrew DuffyNew Haven$256K
- Anees ChagparNew Haven$121K
- Craig FlochNorwalk$88K
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.