Cole Liberator, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Torrance, CANPI 1912261736
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 10 payments — averaging $16.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Electromed, Inc.$81
- Insmed, Inc.$48
- Abiomed$22
- Ambu Inc.$18
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$12976%
- Education$1710%
- Gifts$2213%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Electromed, Inc. | 6 | $81 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $22 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $18 |
How this compares
$169 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 1,261 pulmonary disease providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 35 | $485,754 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 230 | $232,179 |
| Pirfenidone | 12 | $62,639 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 75 | $49,089 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 53 | $38,286 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 58 | $31,994 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 36 | $31,914 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 38 | $30,581 |
| Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 26 | $12,352 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 31 | $11,108 |
| EliquisApixaban | 11 | $9,363 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 16 | $9,159 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 31 | $8,673 |
| Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate | 13 | $7,359 |
| DuleraMometasone/Formoterol | 15 | $6,930 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pulmonary disease in Torrance
- William StringerTorrance$1M
- Catherine ObergTorrance$457K
- Toby MaherLos Angeles$27.6M
- David PhamWestminster$5.9M
- Andrew WachtelLos Angeles$5.9M
- Aaron WeinbergIrvine$5.1M
- Michael RothLos Angeles$4.5M
- Namita SoodSacramento$3.7M
- Edward FedermanSan Diego$3.6M
- Sanjay VadgamaSherman Oaks$3.3M
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.