Catherine Frenette
Gastroenterology · la Jolla, CANPI 1417935081
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 493 payments — averaging $3625.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bayer$1.2M
- Merck$208K
- Exelixis Inc.$131K
- Eisai Inc.$85K
- Gilead$66K
- Genentech USA, Inc.$21K
- plus $88K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$99,68029%
- Speaking & faculty fees$209,32561%
- Travel & lodging$25,5457%
- Food & beverage$7,7102%
- Education$650%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bayer | 39 | $1,187,189 |
| Merck | 60 | $208,169 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 91 | $131,411 |
| Eisai Inc. | 81 | $85,232 |
| Gilead | 78 | $65,889 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 13 | $21,382 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 21 | $20,579 |
| Dova Pharmaceuticals | 5 | $16,559 |
| AbbVie | 21 | $13,334 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 27 | $10,082 |
| Shionogi Inc | 14 | $9,376 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 12 | $6,308 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 3 | $3,698 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $2,700 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 2 | $2,551 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $2,375 |
| Fujifilm Wako Diagnostics U.S.A. Corporation | 4 | $165 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $134 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $129 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 2 | $23 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pentax Of America, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$1,787,475 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.
Other gastroenterology in la Jolla
- Paul Pockrosla Jolla$1.5M
- Quan Nhula Jolla$641K
- Peter WinkleCypress$116.7M
- Manuchehr DaraniSanta Ana$17.7M
- Jatinder PruthiLancaster$4.4M
- Long DangWestminster$4.3M
- Muhammad SheikhFresno$4.3M
- Gregory WienerChula Vista$3.5M
- Gil MelmedLos Angeles$3M
- Christopher BowlusSacramento$3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.