Helen Stearns
Nurse Practitioner · San Diego, CANPI 1417560467
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 12 payments — averaging $24.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$122
- Clarus Therapeutics Inc.$77
- Millicent US Inc$38
- Ascend Therapeutics US, LLC$23
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$23
- Antares Pharma, Inc.$17
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$300100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $122 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Millicent US Inc | 3 | $38 |
| Ascend Therapeutics US, LLC | 2 | $23 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 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.
- AMBICOR$122
How this compares
$300 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 6,779 nurse practitioner providers in California.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 41 | $21,832 |
| Estradiol | 60 | $7,969 |
| Aripiprazole | 31 | $5,915 |
| Tacrolimus | 17 | $5,056 |
| Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate | 22 | $3,250 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 102 | $1,473 |
| Pregabalin | 23 | $1,441 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 11 | $1,380 |
| Mirtazapine | 32 | $1,254 |
| Cefpodoxime Proxetil | 15 | $1,254 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 20 | $1,229 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 48 | $1,197 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 63 | $1,056 |
| Valsartan | 31 | $1,004 |
| Potassium Chloride | 41 | $946 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in San Diego
- Angelina CollinsSan Diego$356K
- Madison ShreeveSan Diego$310K
- Arlene OrtegaSan Diego$135K
- Stacey RossSan Diego$43K
- Timothy LazarekSan Diego$37K
- Melanie McGillowaySan Diego$33K
- Jeremy FlowersSan Diego$26K
- Rhonda HewittStanford$917K
- Linda TrinhIrvine$899K
- Denise SinagaNorthridge$728K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.