Kathleen Laurel
Physician Assistant · Upland, CANPI 1134131394
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 365 payments — averaging $21.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
- AbbVie$956
- Ardelyx, Inc.$870
- Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$755
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$536
- QOL Medical, LLC$502
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,706100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 102 | $1,791 |
| AbbVie | 52 | $956 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 48 | $870 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 21 | $755 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 23 | $536 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 23 | $502 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 19 | $365 |
| Gilead | 10 | $279 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 17 | $272 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $253 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $237 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $221 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 8 | $168 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $122 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $111 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 5 | $108 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $98 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
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
$7,706 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 10,423 physician assistant providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 100 | $5,934 |
| Omeprazole | 35 | $567 |
| Famotidine | 31 | $504 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 25 | $388 |
| Lactulose | 11 | $338 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 14 | $86 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Upland
- Erin JensenUpland$716K
- John QuigleyDowney$2.9M
- Andrea NguyenIrvine$1M
- Mikhail AlperMadera$889K
- Franklin ClineSacramento$458K
- Carla CrespoMarina del Rey$297K
- Katherine OsakiEl Centro$274K
- Shawna JonesFountain Valley$266K
- Heather AustinSalinas$219K
- Eric CheungLos Angeles$213K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.