Sepehr Lalezari, MD
Surgery · Los Angeles, CANPI 1417238205
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 167 payments — averaging $214.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$21K
- Covidien LP$7K
- Medtronic$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$986
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$809
- plus $3K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,07514%
- Travel & lodging$3,94511%
- Food & beverage$9,33126%
- Education$17,50049%
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 | 26 | $20,794 |
| Covidien LP | 26 | $7,015 |
| Medtronic | 20 | $1,801 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 13 | $1,750 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 15 | $986 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $809 |
| Novo Nordisk | 24 | $786 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 3 | $492 |
| Teleflex LLC | 6 | $256 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 3 | $234 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $175 |
| GI Supply, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 2 | $128 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $107 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $36 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $30 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Activ Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Stryker | 1 | $25 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| BD | 1 | $21 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $19 |
| Precision Medical Products, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$14,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$5,724
- ProGrip$5,457
- LINX Reflux Management System$1,047
- Signia$863
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$536
- LigaSure$446
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$418
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$399
- CAIMAN VESSEL SEALERS$360
- Wegovy$229
- BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$179
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$156
- Echelon Flex$147
- VISTASEAL$147
- TRANSORB$146
- SEAMGUARD Staple Line Reinforcement$145
- TITAN SGS STANDARD GASTRIC STAPLER$144
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$144
- Parietene$139
How this compares
$35,852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
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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.