Jenica Thangathurai
Internal Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1144683749
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 157 payments — averaging $28.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Abbott$842
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$420
- Johnson & Johnson$415
- Amgen$219
- Pfizer$215
- plus $1K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$2506%
- Food & beverage$4,09391%
- Education$1553%
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 | 43 | $1,046 |
| Abbott | 29 | $842 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 10 | $420 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $415 |
| Amgen | 4 | $219 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $215 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $187 |
| Novartis | 7 | $170 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $67 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $54 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $51 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $46 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $41 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $30 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Bayer | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $20 |
| Teleflex LLC | 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.
How this compares
$4,498 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Los Angeles
- William TownerLos Angeles$27.4M
- Herbert EradatLos Angeles$11.6M
- Deborah WongLos Angeles$10.7M
- Robin KelleyLos Angeles$5.8M
- David GuzmanLos Angeles$4.3M
- Siwen Hu-LieskovanLos Angeles$2.9M
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Joel NeutelTustin$34.9M
- Donald BrandonSan Diego$34M
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.