Aeri Kang
Internal Medicine · Brea, CANPI 1689660755
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.2% of the total across 67 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 67 payments — averaging $18.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$239
- Pfizer$162
- Merck$127
- Novo Nordisk$109
- Lilly USA, LLC$92
- Amgen$56
- plus $447 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$202%
- Food & beverage$1,17295%
- Education$403%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $239 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $162 |
| Merck | 9 | $127 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $109 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $92 |
| Amgen | 2 | $56 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Valeritas, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| GSK | 1 | $20 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $16 |
| Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,232 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Brea
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Tung NgoNewport Beach$4.9M
- Christian EversullStanford$2.9M
- Christian SandrockSacramento$2.1M
- Hatim HusainSan Diego$2M
- Teck LingPalo Alto$1.1M
- Hyong Kimla Jolla$1M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$965K
- Fred CohenSan Francisco$929K
- Steven EdelmanSan Diego$863K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.