Simon Keushkerian, MD
Surgery · Los Angeles, CANPI 1306866850
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 91 payments — averaging $216.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$16K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$403
- Medtronic$201
- Abbott$199
- Johnson & Johnson$142
- plus $629 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,86720%
- Food & beverage$3,36817%
- Education$12,50063%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 52 | $15,741 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $2,429 |
| Stryker | 1 | $403 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $201 |
| Abbott | 1 | $199 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $142 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $125 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $103 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $50 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $46 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $30 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $30 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $12 |
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$9,212
- DAVINCI XI$5,500
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$2,266
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$403
- AMPLATZER$199
- QUVIVIQ$125
How this compares
$19,743 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 55 | $98 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Los Angeles
- John LiphamLos Angeles$991K
- Caitlin HoughtonLos Angeles$643K
- Nikolai BildzukewiczLos Angeles$348K
- Miguel BurchLos Angeles$290K
- Peyman BenharashLos Angeles$218K
- Raul RosenthalLos Angeles$210K
- Timothy DonahueLos Angeles$200K
- Timothy ChuterSan Francisco$8.9M
- Peter StockSan Francisco$6.5M
- Santiago HorganSan Diego$2.8M
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.