James Wang
Family Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1881048965
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 51.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,246, more than ten times the $49 reported in 2021.
Across 25 payments — averaging $92.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Strata Skin Sciences, Inc.$663
- Dermavant Sciences, Inc.$164
- Almirall LLC$114
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$91
- Boehringer Ingelheim$28
- plus $64 from 3 others
Across 44 payments — averaging $9840.20 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.
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$433K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,18751%
- Food & beverage$1,12449%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $1,187 |
| Strata Skin Sciences, Inc. | 9 | $663 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $164 |
| Almirall LLC | 5 | $114 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $91 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $28 |
| Novartis | 1 | $23 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,168
- XTRAC$421
- VTAMA$164
How this compares
$2,312 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.
Other family medicine in Los Angeles
- Pamela KushnerLos Angeles$1.2M
- Alexander RivkinLos Angeles$866K
- Scott HowellLos Angeles$793K
- Derrick ButlerLos Angeles$692K
- Jacqueline KenneyLos Angeles$121K
- Sherly SoleimanEncino$1.2M
- Sujata NarayanStanford$1.2M
- Jeffrey UngerChino$906K
- Sandra CalmanMontara$589K
- Anthony JonesOakland$377K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.