Brandon Bates, MD

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Uci Health-Orange Hospital · Orange, CA

Colleagues at Regents of the University of California

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 47 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Dr. Daniel Badih Azzam, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Orange, CA
• Dr. Soroosh Behshad, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Atlanta, GA
• Lauren Chen Ophthalmology Physician · Orange, CA
• Oscar Chen, MD, MS Ophthalmology Physician · Orange, CA
• Dr. Lilangi Ediriwickrema, MD Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Physician · Irvine, CA
• Kimberly Kinga Gokoffski, MD, PHD Neuro-ophthalmology Physician · Orange, CA
• Dr. Sanjay Kedhar, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Irvine, CA
• Dr. Mitul Mehta, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Irvine, CA
• David Merriott, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Aurora, CO
• Dr. Alpa S Patel, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Los Angeles, CA
• Farnoosh Tinoosh, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Orange, CA
• Bethlehem Wole, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Irvine, CA

Other providers in Orange

• Dagny Zhu Luong, MD

  Individual Cornea and External Diseases Specialist Physician · NPI 1790044626

  1010 W La Veta Ave Ste 615, Orange, CA 92868-4310 · (714) 983-5001

• Junru Yan, MD

  Individual Cornea and External Diseases Specialist Physician · NPI 1316528383

  101 The City Dr S, Orange, CA 92868-3201 · (714) 456-7890