Christopher Friend, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · San Diego, CANPI 1861491516
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 264 payments — averaging $137.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endologix LLC$24K
- Medtronic$3K
- Cook Medical LLC$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Penumbra, Inc.$1K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$710
- plus $3K from 22 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Endologix LLC | 19 | $24,384 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 48 | $2,736 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 63 | $2,696 |
| Stryker | 19 | $1,403 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 15 | $1,256 |
| 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
$36,359 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.
Other vascular & interventional radiology in San Diego
- Sean TuttonSan Diego$1.9M
- Hamed AryafarSan Diego$208K
- Isabel NewtonSan Diego$193K
- Zachary BermanSan Diego$176K
- Michael GirardSan Diego$165K
- Quinn MeisingerSan Diego$116K
- Nicholas FidelmanSan Francisco$6.1M
- Mahmood RazaviOrange$3.1M
- Joey EnglishSan Francisco$2.1M
- 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.