Yewande Alimi, MD
Surgery · Washington, DCNPI 1598108748
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (49.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 61.2% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $14,522, more than ten times the $629 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in DC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 144 payments — averaging $238.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$21K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$5K
- Medtronic$3K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- BD$1K
- Enterra Medical, Inc.$599
- plus $1K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,50010%
- Travel & lodging$6,66619%
- Food & beverage$7,20821%
- Education$17,00049%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 46 | $21,036 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 40 | $4,549 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $3,427 |
| Davol Inc. | 16 | $2,095 |
| BD | 8 | $1,273 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 3 | $599 |
| Teleflex LLC | 8 | $478 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $352 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $343 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $48 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $34 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $21 |
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$15,067
- DAVINCI XI$5,500
- Phasix Mesh$2,777
- VS3-IR$2,750
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$2,036
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$841
- Titan SGS$318
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$282
- GORE SYNECOR Preperitoneal Biomaterial$193
- LigaSure$164
- EEA$152
- PHASIX$147
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$147
- Echelon Flex$147
- SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix$147
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$147
- STRATAFIX$147
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$146
- Enseal X1$125
- Echelon Circular$125
How this compares
$34,388 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 117 surgery providers in District of Columbia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 12 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Washington
- Jonathan JohnsonWashington$399K
- Christian ShultsWashington$258K
- Parag BhanotWashington$131K
- Frederick BrodyWashington$98K
- Babak SaraniWashington$73K
- Megan QuintanaWashington$49K
- Terrence FullumWashington$46K
- Jeffrey ShuppWashington$40K
- Adeel ShamimWashington$38K
- Bruce AbellWashington$36K
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.