Yahya Talieh, MD
Thoracic Surgery · Modesto, CANPI 1780624619
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (47.8%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 58.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,398 and has fallen 93.7% since, to $275 in 2025.
Across 83 payments — averaging $142.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$967
- Edwards Lifesciences$703
- Medtronic$360
- Abiomed$269
- plus $582 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,63748%
- Food & beverage$3,64031%
- Education$2,50021%
- 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 | 24 | $6,833 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 11 | $2,072 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 10 | $967 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 13 | $703 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $360 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $269 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $116 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $109 |
| Abbott | 1 | $107 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 1 | $84 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $39 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $32 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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$3,973
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- Perceval$1,979
- MICS Instruments$1,873
- Memo4D$1,873
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$397
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$280
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$116
- ENDURANT IIS$115
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$112
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$107
- 3F$103
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$101
How this compares
Too few thoracic surgery providers in Californiato 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 53 | $415 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 22 | $175 |
| Carvedilol | 13 | $68 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery in Modesto
- Rajaratnam SkantharajaModesto$0
- Jacques KpodonuNewport Beach$15K
- Hakob DavtyanSan Bernardino$2K
- Syam VunnamadalaAnaheim$832
- James ZalezSanta Monica$0
- Oluwole FajoluWoodland Hills$0
- William AlexRiverside$0
- Christopher LeachTorrance$0
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.