Albert Liu
Internal Medicine · San Francisco, CANPI 1326153768
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $36,400 of the $45,038 with a category attached, or 80.8%. Abbott accounts for 82.3% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $36,439 and has fallen 89.2% since, to $3,952 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 69 payments — averaging $652.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$37K
- Medtronic$4K
- Gilead$3K
- Biotronik Inc.$356
- EBR Systems, Inc.$199
- Viiv Healthcare Company$48
- plus $52 from 2 others
Across 30 payments — averaging $29,973 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Viiv Healthcare Company$491K
- Gilead$409K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,3808%
- Grants$36,40081%
- Travel & lodging$2,2295%
- Food & beverage$3,0287%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 22 | $37,083 |
| Medtronic | 37 | $3,919 |
| Gilead | 1 | $3,380 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 5 | $356 |
| EBR Systems, Inc. | 1 | $199 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $48 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 1 | $23 |
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.
- Micra$910
- ENSITE$169
- AMVIA EDGE$154
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$135
- AVEIR$120
How this compares
$45,038 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in San Francisco
- Fred CohenSan Francisco$929K
- John TeerlinkSan Francisco$819K
- Mark SmithSan Francisco$535K
- Lisa CapaldiniSan Francisco$434K
- Maria Dall'eraSan Francisco$417K
- Kenneth ColleySan Francisco$397K
- Louis CubbaSan Francisco$351K
- Daniel ButlerSan Francisco$347K
- Laurence CorashSan Francisco$336K
- Felicia StermanSan Francisco$298K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.