Catherine Liikala
Nurse Practitioner · National City, CANPI 1114659091
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 100 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 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 100 payments — averaging $24.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$542
- Merck$382
- Edwards Lifesciences$331
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$253
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$184
- Scpharmaceuticals Inc.$118
- plus $656 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,466100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 30 | $542 |
| Merck | 14 | $382 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $331 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 14 | $253 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $184 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $118 |
| Bayer | 5 | $98 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $87 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 3 | $64 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $53 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $50 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $28 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $22 |
| Cvrx, 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
$2,466 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 6,779 nurse practitioner providers in California.
Other nurse practitioner in National City
- Rhonda HewittStanford$917K
- Linda TrinhIrvine$884K
- Denise SinagaNorthridge$728K
- Debbie TaySanta Monica$642K
- Joe GorelickCampbell$638K
- Lynsey LakinArcadia$540K
- Kelly ChoiRancho Cucamonga$483K
- Hamta ZareStanford$428K
- Shawna ChrismanRoseville$425K
- Angelina CollinsSan Diego$356K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.