Julia Cruse
Physician Assistant · Chico, CANPI 1417458522
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 186 payments — averaging $19.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- AstraZeneca$389
- Novo Nordisk$378
- Amgen$259
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$202
- Lilly USA, LLC$117
- plus $820 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,712100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 82 | $1,547 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $389 |
| Novo Nordisk | 17 | $378 |
| Amgen | 7 | $259 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 18 | $202 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $117 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 8 | $98 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 6 | $94 |
| Merck | 4 | $68 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $67 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $57 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $51 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $44 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| GSK | 2 | $25 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bayer | 1 | $17 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Novavax Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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
$3,712 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 10,423 physician assistant providers in California.
Other physician assistant in Chico
- Omar OnChico$63K
- 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
- Heather AustinSalinas$219K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.