Has Edward Tangchitnob received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $361,529 in general payments to Edward Tangchitnob across 504 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 Edward Tangchitnob 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 Edward Tangchitnob 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.

Edward Tangchitnob

Obstetrics & Gynecology · West Covina, CANPI 1396996294

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $265,985 of the $361,529 with a category attached, or 73.6%. AbbVie accounts for 93.4% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $163,918 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $132 in 2024. Among obstetrics & gynecology 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.

$361,529in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 504 payments — averaging $717.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$338K
Avanos Medical$7K
Pfizer$7K
Covidien LP$5K
Coopersurgical, Inc.$2K
Momentis Surgical Inc.$1K
plus $2K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$38,56411%
Speaking & faculty fees$265,98574%
Travel & lodging$45,04012%
Food & beverage$11,8263%
Education$1150%

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)	404	$337,709
Avanos Medical	9	$7,029
Pfizer	11	$6,624
Covidien LP	5	$4,811
Coopersurgical, Inc.	6	$2,421
Momentis Surgical Inc.	4	$1,059
Intuitive Surgical	5	$361
Avion Pharmaceuticals	21	$303
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	2	$248
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	8	$170
Meditrina	1	$118
Novo Nordisk	6	$115
Olympus America Inc.	1	$114
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$98
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	6	$84
Myovant Sciences Inc.	4	$74
Exeltis, USA Inc.	3	$65
Therapeuticsmd, Inc.	3	$50
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$33
Medtronic	1	$26
KARL Storz Endoscopy-america	1	$16

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

$361,529 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,784 obstetrics & gynecology providers in California.

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Risa KaganBerkeley$497K
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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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