Juan Santacruz
Physician Assistant · Orange, CANPI 1528823689
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 253 payments — averaging $28.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$956
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$827
- Johnson & Johnson$794
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$769
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$706
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$667
- plus $3K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,17698%
- Education$1092%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 23 | $956 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 26 | $827 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $794 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 34 | $769 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 23 | $706 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 24 | $667 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 18 | $488 |
| AbbVie | 12 | $479 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 14 | $286 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 10 | $257 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 12 | $214 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $178 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 14 | $159 |
| Luye Pharma (USA) Ltd. | 1 | $124 |
| Biogen | 4 | $99 |
| Corium, LLC | 5 | $65 |
| Braeburn Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $58 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $38 |
| Indivior Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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
$7,286 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 10,423 physician assistant providers in California.
Other physician assistant in Orange
- Nina LuongOrange$78K
- Janette VillalonOrange$35K
- John QuigleyDowney$2.9M
- Andrea NguyenIrvine$1M
- Mikhail AlperMadera$889K
- Erin JensenUpland$716K
- Franklin ClineSacramento$458K
- Carla CrespoMarina del Rey$297K
- Katherine OsakiEl Centro$274K
- Shawna JonesFountain Valley$266K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.