Cindy Alvarez
Acute Care · Victorville, CANPI 1053176628
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.9%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sanofi at 55.0% of the total. Among acute care clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 158 payments — averaging $54.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi$5K
- GSK$660
- Merck$568
- AstraZeneca$463
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$359
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$317
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,72032%
- Travel & lodging$1,15213%
- Food & beverage$4,63754%
- Education$951%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi | 19 | $4,730 |
| GSK | 31 | $660 |
| Merck | 16 | $568 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $463 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 13 | $359 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 7 | $317 |
| Bayer | 11 | $300 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $229 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 5 | $220 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 9 | $200 |
| Philips North America LLC | 11 | $145 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 3 | $63 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $57 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $23 |
| Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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
$8,603 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,153 acute care providers in California.
Other acute care in Victorville
- Leslie PetersenCamarillo$370K
- Joyce KhremianSan Dimas$73K
- Eleanor VierraSacramento$64K
- Frances DyLos Angeles$57K
- Savannah HarrisVentura$56K
- Kori Ann JohnstonLos Angeles$42K
- Caroline KwongOrange$42K
- Gregory KnutzenColton$41K
- Sunita BoparaiLos Angeles$37K
- Sherona BauLos Angeles$32K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.