Seena Safavy, MD
Urology · Santa Monica, CANPI 1437418332
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,753 of the $2,611 with a category attached, or 67.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 69.9% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,912 and has fallen 66.4% since, to $643 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for urology clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $2,485.
Across 30 payments — averaging $87.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Boston Scientific$331
- Smith+Nephew$109
- Calyxo, Inc.$70
- Procept Biorobotics Corporation$50
- Innovation Technologies Inc$47
- plus $180 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,75367%
- Food & beverage$85833%
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 | 12 | $1,826 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $331 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $109 |
| Calyxo, Inc. | 2 | $70 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $50 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $47 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $34 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,593
- LITHOCLAST$129
- Stravix$109
- SpaceOAR System$105
How this compares
$2,611 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,324 urology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 156 | $2,638 |
| Trospium Chloride | 32 | $1,222 |
| Finasteride | 60 | $876 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 17 | $190 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $145 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 21 | $126 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 22 | $125 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Santa Monica
- Karyn EilberSanta Monica$276K
- Jesse MillsSanta Monica$259K
- Jennifer LinehanSanta Monica$168K
- Martin GelbardSanta Monica$142K
- Timothy WilsonSanta Monica$109K
- Stephen FreedlandWest Hollywood$1.9M
- Arie BelldegrunLos Angeles$1.8M
- Mihir DesaiLos Angeles$1.5M
- Steven WilsonIndio$1.1M
- Stuart HoldenLos Angeles$1.1M
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.