Tejal Brahmbhatt, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Los Angeles, CANPI 1619902129
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (29.4%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 46.4% of the total. 2024 is the largest year on record at $3,954, 2.9 times the $1,360 reported in 2019.
Across 25 payments — averaging $340.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$791
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$569
- AstraZeneca$42
- plus $35 from 1 others
Across 15 payments — averaging $2691.80 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AbbVie$40K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,12513%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,00023%
- Travel & lodging$2,16125%
- Food & beverage$7319%
- Education$2,50029%
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 | 11 | $3,954 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $2,000 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $1,125 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $791 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $569 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $42 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $35 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,023
- RibFix Blu$725
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$381
- DA VINCI SP$137
How this compares
$8,517 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 141 surgical critical care 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 surgical critical care in Los Angeles
- Demetrios DemetriadesLos Angeles$192K
- Scott CunneenLos Angeles$35K
- Nicholas NissenLos Angeles$26K
- Daniel MarguliesLos Angeles$15K
- Meghan LewisLos Angeles$14K
- Ara KoLos Angeles$9K
- James BardesLos Angeles$8K
- Dennis KimLos Angeles$5K
- Kazuhide MatsushimaLos Angeles$5K
- Rodrigo AlbanLos Angeles$3K
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.