Christopher Allen
Interventional Cardiology · Los Angeles, CANPI 1437970068
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 227 payments — averaging $54.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$11K
- Heartflow, Inc.$352
- Medtronic$338
- Abiomed$149
- Penumbra, Inc.$140
- Philips North America LLC$73
- plus $46 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$340%
- Food & beverage$12,445100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 213 | $11,381 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 3 | $352 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $338 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $149 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $73 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $46 |
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.
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$2,282
- EVOQUE$654
- PASCAL$500
- FFRct$301
- SYMPLICITY G3$166
- Impella$149
- Indigo System$140
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$119
How this compares
$12,479 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.
Other interventional cardiology in Los Angeles
- Evan ZahnLos Angeles$1.4M
- Ray MatthewsLos Angeles$653K
- Steven BursteinLos Angeles$514K
- Jubin JosephLos Angeles$312K
- Rajendra MakkarWest Hollywood$16.6M
- Fahed BitarCovina$9.9M
- Rahul SharmaStanford$6.6M
- Matthew Pricela Jolla$5.8M
- David LeeStanford$5.7M
- Saibal KarThousand Oaks$5.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.