Helen Stacey
Internal Medicine · Walnut Creek, CANPI 1821235425
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 2,181 payments — averaging $9343.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$11.6M
- Merck$2.7M
- Eli Lilly$2.6M
- Modernatx, Inc.$1M
- Bavarian Nordic A/s$703K
- AbbVie$447K
- plus $1.3M from 9 others
Across 13 payments — averaging $1257.53 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.
- Eli Lilly$13K
- Pfizer$4K
- Novo Nordisk$48
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,44075%
- Food & beverage$2,72124%
- Gifts$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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 718 | $11,584,014 |
| Merck | 118 | $2,714,606 |
| Eli Lilly | 80 | $2,628,441 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 24 | $1,023,815 |
| Bavarian Nordic A/s | 57 | $702,515 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 64 | $446,828 |
| Novo Nordisk AS | 1,037 | $376,057 |
| Biontech SE | 29 | $269,550 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 7 | $233,604 |
| Abbott | 28 | $205,676 |
| GSK | 15 | $174,521 |
| Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. | 1 | $18,000 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $123 |
| Senseonics, Incorporated | 1 | $40 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
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.
- NURTEC ODT$1,505
- GARDASIL 9$1,345
- PREVNAR - 13$1,295
- Ozempic$1,230
- APRETUDE$123
How this compares
$20,377,807 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Walnut Creek
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Joel NeutelTustin$34.9M
- Donald BrandonSan Diego$34M
- William TownerLos Angeles$27.4M
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
- Masoud AzizadNorthridge$21.1M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$15.1M
- Zeid KayaliColton$14.2M
- Alexandra DrakakiSanta Monica$14.2M
- Thomas MartinSan Francisco$13.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.