RxDoctor Payments Data

Shireesh Saurabh, MD

Surgery · Issaquah, WANPI 1386080190

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $12,500 of the $18,262 with a category attached, or 68.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 89.7% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $10,841 and has fallen 81.7% since, to $1,987 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in WA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$18,262in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $445.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$16K
  • Covidien LP$1K
  • Medtronic$425
  • Davol Inc.$126
  • AstraZeneca$88
  • Teleflex LLC$68
  • plus $106 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$3,97322%
  • Food & beverage$1,78910%
  • Education$12,50068%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Intuitive Surgical23$16,380
Covidien LP3$1,070
Medtronic4$425
Davol Inc.2$126
AstraZeneca1$88
Teleflex LLC1$68
ERBE USA Inc2$33
Johnson & Johnson2$32
Merck1$15
CSL Behring1$14
Olympus America Inc.1$11

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

$18,262 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 549 surgery providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$11,883
Medicare patients
34
Services billed
49

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 surgery in Issaquah

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