Saman Arbabi, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Seattle, WANPI 1073611489
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.0%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. CSL Behring accounts for 99.1% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $5,850 and has fallen 84.5% since, to $908 in 2024. Among surgical critical care clinicians in WA 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 21 payments — averaging $648.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- CSL Behring$13K
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$125
Across 135 payments — averaging $31,094 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- CSL Behring$4.2M
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,85043%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,07037%
- Travel & lodging$2,19116%
- Food & beverage$5054%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CSL Behring | 19 | $13,491 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $125 |
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.
- Kcentra$5,350
- CARDIOHELP$108
How this compares
$13,616 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 22 surgical critical care providers in Washington.
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 surgical critical care in Seattle
- Edgar FigueredoSeattle$1K
- Jonathan ScottSeattle$674
- Lorrie LangdaleSeattle$484
- Tam PhamSeattle$367
- Alexander MorzyckiSeattle$190
- Grant OkeefeSeattle$55
- Christopher HultsMukilteo$8K
- Tim LeeVancouver$8K
- Long TranTacoma$6K
- Gweniviere CapronRenton$3K
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.