Christopher Friend, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · San Diego, CANPI 1861491516
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,554 of the $12,895 with a category attached, or 89.6%. It is spread thinly across 28 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 251 payments — averaging $51.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Cook Medical LLC$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Penumbra, Inc.$1K
- Endologix LLC$919
- Inari Medical, Inc.$710
- plus $3K from 22 others
Across 13 payments — averaging $1804.95 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Endologix LLC$23K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$380%
- Travel & lodging$1,30310%
- Food & beverage$11,55490%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 48 | $2,736 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 63 | $2,696 |
| Stryker | 19 | $1,403 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 15 | $1,256 |
| Endologix LLC | 6 | $919 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 19 | $710 |
| Boston Scientific | 16 | $607 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 8 | $343 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $341 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 4 | $335 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 4 | $319 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 4 | $272 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 11 | $243 |
| BD | 7 | $165 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 2 | $156 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 5 | $96 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $40 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $38 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $26 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Abbott | 1 | $14 |
| Cagent Vascular Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $6 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 1 | $4 |
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.
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$1,007
- SPINEJACK$599
- OPTABLATE$576
- Indigo System$554
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION SYSTEM$549
- OMNICURVE$367
- Cook Medical Zilver PTX$342
- Penumbra System$265
- ENDOCROSS Device$263
- Torus Stent Graft System$263
- AlphaVac$237
- ROSEN$214
- AUTOPLEX$166
- Zilver PTX$155
- THERASPHERE-BIO$143
- Varian CRYOCARE TOUCH System$138
- EMBOZENE$138
- Cook$132
- Sublime 014 Rx PTA Balloon Dilatation Catheter$129
- Sublime Radial Access 018 RX PTA Dilatation Catheter$129
How this compares
$12,895 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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.
Other vascular & interventional radiology in San Diego
- Sean TuttonSan Diego$469K
- Isabel NewtonSan Diego$193K
- Zachary BermanSan Diego$176K
- Hamed AryafarSan Diego$128K
- Quinn MeisingerSan Diego$116K
- Richard SaxonSan Diego$89K
- Kazim NarsinhSan Diego$60K
- Zachary RattnerSan Diego$59K
- Mahmood RazaviOrange$2.4M
- Keith TerasakiLos Angeles$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.