Katherine Bradshaw-Smith
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 95 payments — averaging $24.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$756
- AstraZeneca$369
- GSK$227
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$176
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$125
- Boston Scientific$112
- plus $590 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,33999%
- Gifts$161%
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 | 36 | $756 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $369 |
| GSK | 11 | $227 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $176 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $112 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $85 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $82 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $82 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $80 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $69 |
| Amgen | 2 | $38 |
| Ascend Therapeutics US, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Merck | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- BREZTRI$124
- NURTEC ODT$121
- FARXIGA$120
- SUPERION$112
How this compares
$2,355 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,087 medical providers in California.
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- Heather ParlettRedlands$168K
- Deirdre MoxleyFullerton$149K
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- Linda RankLadera Ranch$105K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.