Has Saied Habibipour, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,609 in general payments to Saied Habibipour, MD across 27 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 Saied Habibipour, 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 Saied Habibipour, 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.

Saied Habibipour, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Palm Springs, CANPI 1013904424

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,815 of the $2,609 with a category attached, or 69.5%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 44.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,178 and has fallen 69.8% since, to $355 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $4,430.

$2,609in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $96.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$1K
Medtronic$720
Abiomed$296
Bridgebio Pharma, Inc.$122
Getinge USA Sales, LLC$71
LSI Solutions Inc$64
plus $184 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,81570%
Food & beverage$79530%

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
Atricure, Inc.	2	$1,153
Medtronic	7	$720
Abiomed	7	$296
Bridgebio Pharma, Inc.	1	$122
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	2	$71
LSI Solutions Inc	1	$64
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$49
Davol Inc.	1	$45
Johnson & Johnson	1	$30
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	1	$24
Zimmer Biomet	1	$19
Merck	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.

EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,144
Endurant$615
Impella$147
Attruby$122

How this compares

$2,609 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$61,482

Medicare patients

Services billed

134

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
BrilintaTicagrelor	77	$36,068
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	15	$11,665
Rosuvastatin Calcium	180	$2,094
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	95	$789
Metoprolol Tartrate	104	$465
Tamsulosin Hcl	29	$361
Ezetimibe	25	$287
Omeprazole	19	$237
Losartan Potassium	19	$160
Metoprolol Succinate	28	$160
Carvedilol	44	$123
Amiodarone Hcl	11	$120
Lisinopril	39	$115
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	15	$87
Pantoprazole Sodium	43	$86

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Palm Springs

Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$875K
Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$764K
Wilson TsaiWalnut Creek$680K
Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$608K
Harmik SoukiasianLos Angeles$577K
Ali KhoynezhadLong Beach$476K

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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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