Samuel Kashani, MD
Surgery · Encino, CANPI 1184821407
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (57.2%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Harmony Biosciences LLC accounts for 67.2% of it on its own, with 39 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery 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.
Across 230 payments — averaging $256.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Harmony Biosciences LLC$40K
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$3K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$917
- plus $3K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,8645%
- Speaking & faculty fees$33,73257%
- Travel & lodging$8,27214%
- Food & beverage$7,05712%
- Education$7,01812%
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.
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
$58,943 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 51 | $312 |
| Gabapentin | 20 | $83 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 32 | $69 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Encino
- Nojan ToomariEncino$415K
- Timothy ChuterSan Francisco$8.8M
- Santiago HorganSan Diego$2.8M
- Rock LiuHayward$1.6M
- David LouriePasadena$1.4M
- Andrea PakulaThousand Oaks$1.4M
- Siew-Ming LeeFresno$1.3M
- Beemen KhalilPalo Alto$1.1M
- John LiphamLos Angeles$942K
- Alexander NedopilLodi$682K
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.