Taryne Imai, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Honolulu, HINPI 1477745545
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (49.6%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 73.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $71,220 and has fallen 95.5% since, to $3,239 in 2025.
Across 244 payments — averaging $466.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$83K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$24K
- Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$3K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- CSA Medical, Inc$668
- Covidien LP$367
- plus $1K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$23,28920%
- Speaking & faculty fees$56,45050%
- Travel & lodging$15,52114%
- Food & beverage$15,01713%
- Education$3,3003%
- Gifts$1510%
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 | 183 | $83,179 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 21 | $23,645 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 21 | $3,483 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $1,122 |
| CSA Medical, Inc | 1 | $668 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $367 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $355 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $251 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $241 |
| Optellum Ltd | 1 | $150 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Medtronic | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$70,774
- DERMABOND$20,705
- Echelon Circular$20,705
- MONOCRYL$20,705
- DA VINCI SP$7,300
- Photofrin$2,856
- ION$2,000
- TAGRISSO$1,074
- ALIYA SYSTEM$251
- Echelon Flex$198
- iDrive$124
How this compares
Too few thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Hawaiito place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 23 | $280 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 25 | $99 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Honolulu
- Jonathan PhilpottHonolulu$84K
- Peter TsaiHonolulu$51K
- Nicholas DangHonolulu$19K
- Jeffrey LauHonolulu$13K
- Dean NakamuraHonolulu$11K
- Jeffrey WuHonolulu$9K
- Ayman Abdul GhaniHonolulu$8K
- Jama JahanyarHonolulu$6K
- Eric ChungHonolulu$2K
- Tracy DorheimHonolulu$953
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.