Stephen Garber, MD
Anesthesiology · Laguna Hills, CANPI 1396768321
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.7%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated accounts for 87.2% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $50,049 and has fallen 52.2% since, to $23,909 in 2025. Among anesthesiology clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 274 payments — averaging $655.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$157K
- Rivanna Medical, Inc$22K
- Vyaire Medical, Inc.$218
- Werfen USA LLC$120
- Comsort, Inc$100
- Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.$19
- plus $22 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$85,67348%
- Speaking & faculty fees$59,15033%
- Travel & lodging$29,03316%
- Food & beverage$5,7053%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 261 | $156,598 |
| Rivanna Medical, Inc | 7 | $22,483 |
| Vyaire Medical, Inc. | 1 | $218 |
| Werfen USA LLC | 1 | $120 |
| Comsort, Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| PPOD Orthotics Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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
$179,561 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,717 anesthesiology 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 anesthesiology in Laguna Hills
- David DeyhimyLaguna Hills$344K
- Jack JengSouth San Francisco$1.3M
- Roger PhillipsChico$434K
- Maxime CannessonLos Angeles$336K
- Alexander RoherSan Diego$282K
- Moody MakarLos Angeles$252K
- Jonathan JahrLos Angeles$223K
- Amir ShbeebLong Beach$216K
- Lawrence ChuStanford$205K
- Hendrikus LemmensStanford$200K
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.