John Hess
Cardiovascular Disease · Thousand Oaks, CANPI 1053504910
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 88 payments — averaging $19.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$368
- Abbott$365
- Novartis$234
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$130
- Medtronic$127
- Edwards Lifesciences$100
- plus $384 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,69699%
- Education$121%
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 | 19 | $368 |
| Abbott | 6 | $365 |
| Novartis | 25 | $234 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 8 | $130 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $127 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $100 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $95 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $48 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $39 |
| Gilead | 2 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $31 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $24 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $14 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $6 |
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.
- Fortify Assura$151
How this compares
$1,708 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
Other cardiovascular disease in Thousand Oaks
- Irving LohThousand Oaks$1.1M
- 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
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.