Alexander Shen
Internal Medicine · Torrance, CANPI 1710091723
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 365 payments — averaging $19.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Novartis$834
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$672
- Abiomed$603
- Pfizer$596
- Merck$581
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,964100%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 76 | $1,373 |
| Novartis | 41 | $834 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 39 | $672 |
| Abiomed | 28 | $603 |
| Pfizer | 38 | $596 |
| Merck | 32 | $581 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 23 | $522 |
| Shionogi Inc | 27 | $506 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 17 | $281 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 9 | $196 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $162 |
| Gilead | 2 | $136 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $75 |
| CSL Behring | 3 | $56 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $52 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $37 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $28 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Cytovale, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $20 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Vemlidy$117
How this compares
$6,971 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Torrance
- Robert JendersTorrance$5.9M
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Joel NeutelTustin$34.9M
- Donald BrandonSan Diego$34M
- William TownerLos Angeles$27.4M
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
- Masoud AzizadNorthridge$21.1M
- Helen StaceyWalnut Creek$20.4M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$15.1M
- Zeid KayaliColton$14.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.