Has Courtney Pietsch received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $13,212 in general payments to Courtney Pietsch across 493 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Courtney Pietsch did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Courtney Pietsch come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Courtney Pietsch

Nurse Practitioner · la Mesa, CANPI 1194204297

Payments from drug & device makers

$13,212in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 493 payments — averaging $26.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Insightec,inc$2K
AbbVie$2K
UCB, Inc.$1K
Livanova USA, Inc.$987
Biogen$672
SK Life Science, Inc.$666
plus $6K from 46 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,15816%
Food & beverage$10,85582%
Education$1992%

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
Insightec,inc	8	$1,718
AbbVie	134	$1,594
UCB, Inc.	48	$1,101
Livanova USA, Inc.	4	$987
Biogen	21	$672
SK Life Science, Inc.	29	$666
Amgen(2 entities)	18	$469
Boston Scientific	6	$397
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	9	$386
Medtronic	8	$324
Lilly USA, LLC	12	$308
Eisai Inc.	15	$290
AstraZeneca	13	$243
Argenx US, Inc.	9	$237
Lundbeck LLC	10	$234
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	11	$214
Novartis	11	$213
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	6	$208
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	6	$204
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	14	$194
Sanofi	9	$192
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$190
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$187
Almatica Pharma LLC	6	$178
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	8	$159
Genentech, Inc.	1	$135
Neurelis, Inc.	6	$122
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	5	$120
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	1	$113
Abbott	4	$106
EMD Serono, Inc.	6	$95
Banner Life Sciences, LLC	5	$85
Genentech USA, Inc.	3	$77
Boehringer Ingelheim	3	$77
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$73
Pfizer	3	$69
Johnson & Johnson	4	$68
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$66
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	3	$56
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$43
Grifols USA, LLC	2	$42
Novo Nordisk	2	$42
CSL Behring	2	$41
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$39
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$39
Chiesi USA, Inc.	1	$26
Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$24
TG Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$21
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$21
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$17
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$17
Amneal Pharmaceuticals 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

$13,212 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,779 nurse practitioner providers in California.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Levetiracetam	16	$847
Gabapentin	13	$277
Nortriptyline Hcl	11	$66

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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