David Bloom
Sports Medicine · Huntington Beach, CANPI 1417005737
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 74 payments — averaging $20.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$315
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$221
- Abiomed$171
- Novo Nordisk$150
- Lilly USA, LLC$68
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$65
- plus $548 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,538100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 17 | $315 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 14 | $221 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $171 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $150 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $68 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $55 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $28 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $22 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $21 |
| Novartis | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $19 |
| Gilead | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Impella$136
How this compares
$1,538 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 662 sports medicine providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 13 | $469 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Huntington Beach
- Neal ElattracheLos Angeles$51M
- Nathaniel CohenLos Gatos$6.4M
- Thomas KnappSanta Monica$2.5M
- Seth ShermanStanford$1.8M
- Michael FreehillStanford$1.7M
- Deryk JonesSan Carlos$1.6M
- Allan MishraMenlo Park$1.5M
- Heinz Hoeneckela Jolla$1.4M
- Marc SafranPalo Alto$1.2M
- Stephan YacoubianBurbank$1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.