Gretel D'souza
Rheumatology · Sylmar, CANPI 1679138531
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 162 payments — averaging $36.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$1K
- AbbVie$1K
- AstraZeneca$740
- Johnson & Johnson$548
- Novartis$496
- GSK$419
- plus $1K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,69497%
- Education$1823%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 29 | $1,286 |
| AbbVie | 36 | $1,135 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 13 | $740 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $548 |
| Novartis | 18 | $496 |
| GSK | 21 | $419 |
| UCB, Inc. | 10 | $401 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 4 | $217 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $175 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $94 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 4 | $93 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $90 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $25 |
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
$5,876 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 26 | $1,506 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 38 | $709 |
| Omeprazole | 17 | $343 |
| Pilocarpine Hcl | 13 | $287 |
| Prednisone | 16 | $118 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $102 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other rheumatology in Sylmar
- Samy MetyasCovina$12.9M
- Christine ThaiHuntington Beach$8.5M
- Tien-I SuWhittier$8.4M
- Eric LeeUpland$6.9M
- Orrin TroumSanta Monica$6.9M
- Shirley PangFullerton$5.7M
- William RobinsonStanford$5.1M
- Dan laTujunga$5.1M
- Christina Charles-SchoemanLos Angeles$4.8M
- Suneet GrewalWest Hollywood$3.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.