Esther Sung
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 96 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 96 payments — averaging $19.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$295
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$212
- Lilly USA, LLC$187
- Merck$168
- GSK$155
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$142
- plus $688 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,848100%
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 | 18 | $295 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 11 | $212 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $187 |
| Merck | 8 | $168 |
| GSK | 7 | $155 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 7 | $142 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $131 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $90 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 4 | $75 |
| Novartis | 3 | $55 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $48 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $48 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Vivus LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $26 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $20 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,848 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 10,634 family providers in California.
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- Erin DwyerSan Diego$189K
- Phyllis CasonLos Angeles$187K
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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.