Shoko Abe, MD
Surgery · Berkeley, CANPI 1609178136
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,940 of the $8,333 with a category attached, or 71.3%. Endomagnetics Ltd accounts for 76.0% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,661 and has fallen 94.0% since, to $279 in 2025.
Across 109 payments — averaging $76.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endomagnetics Ltd$6K
- Novartis$306
- Elucent Medical$202
- Focal Therapeutics, Inc.$197
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$127
- AstraZeneca$126
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,11525%
- Food & beverage$5,94071%
- Entertainment$2793%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 32 | $6,333 |
| Novartis | 17 | $306 |
| Elucent Medical | 2 | $202 |
| Focal Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $197 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $127 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 7 | $126 |
| Merck | 7 | $125 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $125 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 6 | $116 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $108 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $94 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $94 |
| Amgen | 3 | $86 |
| Bayer | 3 | $62 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $32 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $27 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $23 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 1 | $19 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $14 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Magseed$2,197
- Magtrace$2,030
- Da Vinci Surgical System$125
- TRIDENT SPECIMEN RADIOGRAPHY SYSTEM$105
- Trunode$105
How this compares
$8,333 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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.
Other surgery in Berkeley
- 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
- Barry GardinerSan Ramon$602K
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.