Armen Zeitjian
Internal Medicine · Torrance, CANPI 1255913356
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 69 payments — averaging $41.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AOP Health US, LLC$839
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$316
- Pfizer$241
- Abiomed$186
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$161
- Novartis$158
- plus $938 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,75297%
- Gifts$873%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AOP Health US, LLC | 2 | $839 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 12 | $316 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $241 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $186 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $161 |
| Novartis | 6 | $158 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $147 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $119 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $104 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $71 |
| Abbott | 3 | $63 |
| Merck | 2 | $57 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $57 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $54 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $49 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $44 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Bayer | 1 | $32 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $30 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $30 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$2,839 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Amlodipine Besylate | 12 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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.