Yazen Assaf, MD
Surgery · Hobart, INNPI 1962938118
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 36 payments — averaging $144.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$136
- Novo Nordisk$59
- Kerecis Limited$57
- Lilly USA, LLC$42
- plus $163 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,81735%
- Food & beverage$88617%
- Education$2,50048%
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 | 9 | $3,741 |
| Davol Inc. | 9 | $1,004 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $136 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $59 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $57 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $42 |
| BD | 1 | $41 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $33 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $33 |
| Abbott | 1 | $25 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $14 |
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$1,152
- Phasix Mesh$837
How this compares
$5,203 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 524 surgery providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OrenciaAbatacept/Maltose | 11 | $47,107 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 15 | $290 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 54 | $210 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 16 | $101 |
| Methylprednisolone Sodium SuccMethylprednisolone Sod Succ | 11 | $76 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $71 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 12 | $62 |
| Metronidazole | 11 | $14 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Hobart
- Thomas ShinHobart$18K
- Jonathan PattersonHobart$18K
- Paul SzotekIndianapolis$2.4M
- Lewis JacobsonIndianapolis$761K
- Carlos Gonzalez RendonMunster$275K
- Christian SchmidtIndianapolis$257K
- Anthony ZappiaCarmel$105K
- Jeremy Luedtkela Porte$102K
- Patricia ClarkFort Wayne$82K
- Erica GiblinCarmel$70K
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.