Ida Wong Sefidan
Internal Medicine · San Diego, CANPI 1285830430
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 92.3% of the total across 2 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 92.3% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for internal medicine clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $147.
Across 2 payments — averaging $85.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$158
- GSK$13
Across 37 payments — averaging $50,636 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.
- Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company$1.4M
- AbbVie$449K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$15892%
- Education$138%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $158 |
| GSK | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Farapulse$158
How this compares
$171 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in San Diego
- Hatim HusainSan Diego$2M
- Steven EdelmanSan Diego$863K
- Christian RamersSan Diego$675K
- Adam ZweigSan Diego$421K
- James BreitmeyerSan Diego$227K
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Tung NgoNewport Beach$4.9M
- Christian EversullStanford$2.9M
- Christian SandrockSacramento$2.1M
- Teck LingPalo Alto$1.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.