Catherine Vu, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Sacramento, CANPI 1104021716
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 126 payments — averaging $298.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$27K
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$3K
- Profound Medical Corp.$2K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc.$1K
- plus $2K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,43351%
- Travel & lodging$8,21024%
- Food & beverage$8,53925%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 93 | $27,004 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $3,400 |
| Profound Medical Corp. | 2 | $1,742 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 4 | $1,455 |
| Abbott | 2 | $1,100 |
| Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $1,064 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 4 | $390 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $302 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $278 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $201 |
| Stryker | 3 | $195 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $126 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $122 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 1 | $103 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Okami Medical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $18 |
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.
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$8,897
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$7,409
- Tulsa-Pro$1,742
- DIREXION$1,360
- OMNILINK ELITE$1,100
- TRINAV INFUSION SYSTEM$558
- Precision Infusion System$485
- GENERAL EMBOLICS$344
- General - Interventional Oncology$286
- OBSIDIO$273
- Certus 140$267
- Indigo System$256
- TheraSphere Y90 Glass Microspheres 10 GBq$242
- THERASPHERE$235
- ALIYA SYSTEM$201
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$175
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$175
- FlowTriever$161
- EMBOLD Fibered$138
- ELUVIA$130
How this compares
$37,583 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 504 vascular & interventional radiology providers in California.
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Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 15 | $8,756 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular & interventional radiology in Sacramento
- Matthew AlexanderSacramento$474K
- Christopher LaingSacramento$177K
- Patrick HartySacramento$129K
- Nicholas FidelmanSan Francisco$6.1M
- Mahmood RazaviOrange$3.1M
- Joey EnglishSan Francisco$2.1M
- Sean TuttonSan Diego$1.9M
- Keith TerasakiLos Angeles$1.7M
- Edward LeeLos Angeles$1.7M
- Bart DolmatchMountain View$1.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.