Helen Stacey
Internal Medicine · Walnut Creek, CANPI 1821235425
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $8,440 of the $11,181 with a category attached, or 75.5%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Eli Lilly at 28.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,474 and has fallen 66.4% since, to $1,505 in 2025. Among internal 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 73 payments — averaging $153.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eli Lilly$3K
- Novo Nordisk AS$3K
- Pfizer$3K
- Merck$2K
- Viiv Healthcare Company$123
- Senseonics, Incorporated$40
- plus $17 from 1 others
Across 2,121 payments — averaging $9610.08 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.
- Pfizer$11.6M
- Merck$2.7M
- Eli Lilly$2.6M
- Modernatx, Inc.$1M
- Bavarian Nordic A/s$703K
- AbbVie$447K
- plus $1.3M from 7 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Lilly | 36 | $3,187 |
| Novo Nordisk AS | 10 | $3,162 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $2,820 |
| Merck | 14 | $1,832 |
| 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
$11,181 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
- Tung NgoNewport Beach$4.9M
- Christian EversullStanford$2.9M
- Christian SandrockSacramento$2.1M
- Hatim HusainSan Diego$2M
- Teck LingPalo Alto$1.1M
- Hyong Kimla Jolla$1M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$965K
- Fred CohenSan Francisco$929K
- Steven EdelmanSan Diego$863K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.