Jaime Betancourt
Internal Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1801098884
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (55.5%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boehringer Ingelheim at 47.6% of the total. 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 327 payments — averaging $875.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$136K
- Vapotherm Inc$131K
- Intuitive Surgical$14K
- Sanofi$4K
- Pulmonx Corporation$489
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$215
- plus $425 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$158,98556%
- Speaking & faculty fees$86,10030%
- Travel & lodging$21,7108%
- Food & beverage$6,9782%
- Education$12,5504%
- Gifts$100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 127 | $136,370 |
| Vapotherm Inc | 165 | $130,543 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 19 | $13,881 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $4,410 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 6 | $489 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $215 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 3 | $156 |
| Bayer | 2 | $122 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $84 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $62 |
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.
- VAPOTHERM$90,964
- OFEV$76,545
- Precision Flow$36,464
- Da Vinci Surgical System$10,447
- ION$3,000
- SPIRIVA$860
- Pulmonx Endobronchial Valve EBV$334
- CHARTIS CATHETER$126
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$126
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$126
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$126
- BREZTRI$125
- UPTRAVI$125
- OPSUMIT$125
How this compares
$286,333 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Los Angeles
- William HardyLos Angeles$704K
- Soha DolatabadiLos Angeles$458K
- Matthew HerrmannLos Angeles$384K
- Koppany VisnyeiLos Angeles$287K
- William KingLos Angeles$227K
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Tung NgoNewport Beach$4.9M
- Christian EversullStanford$2.9M
- Christian SandrockSacramento$2.1M
- Hatim HusainSan Diego$2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.