Joseph Thomas
Cardiovascular Disease · Torrance, CANPI 1568641660
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (46.6%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 40 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.5%. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $12,101 and has fallen 63.6% since, to $4,402 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 792 payments — averaging $55.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$10K
- Abbott$7K
- Medtronic$6K
- Boston Scientific$5K
- Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C.$3K
- Datascope Corp.$3K
- plus $10K from 34 others
Across 15 payments — averaging $3019.56 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.
- M.a. Med Alliance S.A.$35K
- Bayer$10K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$13,29530%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,15018%
- Grants$3501%
- Travel & lodging$1,7224%
- Food & beverage$20,58047%
- Gifts$370%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 8 | $10,366 |
| Abbott | 89 | $6,557 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 292 | $6,450 |
| Boston Scientific | 215 | $5,012 |
| Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C. | 1 | $3,300 |
| Datascope Corp. | 4 | $2,878 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $2,275 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 13 | $1,230 |
| Abiomed | 28 | $1,084 |
| AOP Health US, LLC | 2 | $839 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $468 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $450 |
| Pfizer | 23 | $436 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $353 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 15 | $315 |
| Novartis | 12 | $261 |
| Amgen | 8 | $231 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $224 |
| Philips North America LLC | 7 | $154 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 8 | $127 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $109 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $105 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $103 |
| Teleflex LLC | 5 | $99 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 2 | $98 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $85 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $49 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $46 |
| Invivyd Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $17 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- CARDIOSAVE HYBRID, TYPE B PLUG$9,303
- XIENCE SIERRA$4,000
- CARDIOSAVE$3,869
- ROTAFLOW$3,300
- Micra$2,172
- Rapiblyk$1,679
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$1,028
- Product in Development$450
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$388
- COROFLOW$363
- ELUVIA$175
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$175
- AVVIGO Guidance System$161
- RESONATE$150
- WATCHMAN Access System$150
- MitraClip$143
- EMBLEM$140
- Impella$137
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$134
- Xience Sierra Coronary Stent$127
How this compares
$44,134 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
Other cardiovascular disease in Torrance
- Matthew BudoffTorrance$3.6M
- Ronald OudizTorrance$617K
- William FrenchTorrance$161K
- Ted LoveHillsborough$102.8M
- Paul KurthSanta Barbara$6.1M
- Jason RogersSacramento$4.4M
- Eric Topolla Jolla$2.2M
- Cathleen Bairey-MerzLos Angeles$1.2M
- Gagan SinghSacramento$1.2M
- Pam Taubla Jolla$1.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.