Has Erin Vawter received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,784 in general payments to Erin Vawter across 255 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 Erin Vawter 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 Erin Vawter 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.

Erin Vawter

Physician Assistant · la Mesa, CANPI 1376988691

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,784in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 255 payments — averaging $26.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Novartis$2K
AstraZeneca$312
Johnson & Johnson$279
Bristol Myers Squibb$265
Incyte Corporation$249
Pfizer$229
plus $4K from 50 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$5,53482%
Education$701%
Other$1,18017%

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
Novartis	44	$1,852
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	13	$312
Johnson & Johnson	11	$279
Bristol Myers Squibb	13	$265
Incyte Corporation	11	$249
Pfizer	10	$229
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	11	$216
Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company	8	$184
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	8	$174
Bayer	8	$166
Astellas Pharma US Inc	5	$165
Eisai Inc.	8	$161
AbbVie	6	$151
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$123
Merck	6	$119
Lilly USA, LLC	6	$116
Coherus Oncology, Inc.	4	$105
Pharmaessentia USA Corporation	3	$103
Array Biopharma Inc	5	$102
Sanofi	4	$94
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	3	$87
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.	5	$85
Exelixis Inc.	3	$78
Genentech USA, Inc.	3	$75
GSK	3	$73
Amgen	3	$72
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	3	$70
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	2	$68
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$65
Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.	3	$60
Sobi, Inc	2	$60
Genmab U.S., Inc.	2	$57
Beigene USA, Inc.	2	$54
Springworks Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$54
Blueprint Medicines Corporation	2	$53
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	3	$52
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$48
Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.	2	$47
Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$43
Morphosys, US Inc.	2	$42
Gilead	2	$42
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.	2	$34
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$31
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$29
Seagen Inc.	1	$27
EMD Serono, Inc.	1	$23
Mirati Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$22
ADC Therapeutics America, Inc.	1	$20
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$19
Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.	1	$19
Taiho Oncology, Inc.	1	$19
Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$19
Acrotech Biopharma Inc.	1	$19
Menarini Silicon Biosystems, Inc.	1	$19
Legend Biotech USA Inc.	1	$18
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$14

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.

INGREZZA$123

How this compares

$6,784 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 10,423 physician assistant providers in California.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Hydroxyurea	30	$719
Acyclovir	19	$411
Dexamethasone	11	$220
Anastrozole	14	$143

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physician assistant in la Mesa

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Andrea NguyenIrvine$1M
Mikhail AlperMadera$889K
Erin JensenUpland$716K
Franklin ClineSacramento$458K
Carla CrespoMarina del Rey$297K
Katherine OsakiEl Centro$274K
Shawna JonesFountain Valley$266K
Heather AustinSalinas$219K
Eric CheungLos Angeles$213K

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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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