Emmett Rice
Family Medicine · San Diego, CANPI 1073511150
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $11,154 of the $13,842 with a category attached, or 80.6%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 86.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $9,285 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $126 in 2025. Among family medicine 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 62 payments — averaging $223.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$12K
- Acutus Medical, Inc.$2K
- DJO, LLC$140
- Cleerly, Inc.$126
- AbbVie$30
- Neurelis, Inc.$26
- plus $74 from 4 others
Across 21 payments — averaging $11,500 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Edwards Lifesciences$242K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,50011%
- Grants$1401%
- Travel & lodging$11,15481%
- Food & beverage$1,0287%
- Education$200%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 52 | $11,945 |
| Acutus Medical, Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $140 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $30 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $20 |
| Insulet Corporation | 1 | $13 |
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
$13,842 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 58 | $959 |
| Valsartan | 16 | $437 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 18 | $336 |
| Metformin Hcl | 22 | $291 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 38 | $252 |
| Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide | 12 | $211 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $195 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 13 | $134 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 22 | $78 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 31 | $62 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 12 | $58 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 13 | $36 |
| Losartan Potassium | 11 | $3 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in San Diego
- Bill McCarbergSan Diego$93K
- Sherly SoleimanEncino$1.2M
- Pamela KushnerLos Angeles$1.2M
- Sujata NarayanStanford$1.2M
- Jeffrey UngerChino$906K
- Alexander RivkinLos Angeles$866K
- Scott HowellLos Angeles$793K
- Derrick ButlerLos Angeles$692K
- Sandra CalmanMontara$589K
- Anthony JonesOakland$377K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.