James French
Cardiovascular Disease · San Pedro, CANPI 1821007394
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 136 payments — averaging $1083.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$145K
- Pfizer$380
- AstraZeneca$239
- Novartis$214
- Johnson & Johnson$134
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$128
- plus $788 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,196100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 30 | $145,412 |
| Pfizer | 26 | $380 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $239 |
| Novartis | 16 | $214 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $134 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $128 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $102 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $95 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $91 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $84 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $46 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $26 |
| Tepha Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $24 |
| GSK | 1 | $17 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $17 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$147,294 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
Other cardiovascular disease in San Pedro
- Ted LoveHillsborough$102.8M
- Matthew BudoffTorrance$11.3M
- Lori DanielsSan Diego$10.2M
- Paul KurthSanta Barbara$6.1M
- Michael BlumSan Francisco$5.5M
- Tony ChouSan Francisco$5.2M
- Jason RogersSacramento$5.1M
- Yu-Ping WangStanford$3.8M
- Yogesh PaliwalPomona$3.3M
- Farhad RafiiWest Hills$3.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.