Sartaj Sanghera, MD
Surgical Oncology · Marietta, GANPI 1811174170
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,289 of the $9,989 with a category attached, or 63.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 71.1% of it on its own, with 37 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,881 and has fallen 93.9% since, to $177 in 2025.
Across 133 payments — averaging $75.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$416
- Intera Oncology, Inc$223
- Johnson & Johnson$220
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$212
- Boston Scientific$200
- plus $2K from 32 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $9841.33 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.
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$30K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,69527%
- Travel & lodging$96610%
- Food & beverage$6,28963%
- Gifts$390%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 50 | $7,103 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $416 |
| Intera Oncology, Inc | 1 | $223 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $220 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $212 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $200 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $199 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $171 |
| Seagen Inc. | 8 | $149 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $125 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Merck | 6 | $97 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $80 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $79 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $49 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $48 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $47 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $45 |
| Advanced Accelerator Applications | 2 | $36 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $28 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Axogen | 1 | $25 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $18 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $15 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $13 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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
$9,989 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 43 surgical oncology providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 156 | $604 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical oncology in Marietta
- Sahir ShroffMarietta$6K
- Katherine BrowneMarietta$1K
- Morvarid TavassoliMarietta$1K
- Eddie AbdallaAtlanta$34K
- Atuhani BurnettAtlanta$23K
- Anita JohnsonWoodstock$18K
- Danny YakoubAugusta$17K
- Nicole KounalakisAtlanta$14K
- Barry RosemanAtlanta$10K
- Arnold ConfortiMacon$9K
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.