Kristin Castorino
Internal Medicine · Santa Barbara, CANPI 1396879920
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,127 payments — averaging $9679.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$5.1M
- Dexcom, Inc.$2.8M
- Medtronic$1.9M
- Eli Lilly$509K
- Insulet Corporation$425K
- Sequel Med Tech, LLC$171K
- plus $116K from 6 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $2177.77 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.
- Eli Lilly$4K
- Dexcom, Inc.$313
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$15,47015%
- Speaking & faculty fees$68,82869%
- Travel & lodging$11,20011%
- Food & beverage$4,4404%
- Education$2360%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 635 | $5,072,113 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 149 | $2,762,737 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 72 | $1,853,181 |
| Eli Lilly | 7 | $509,462 |
| Insulet Corporation | 60 | $424,942 |
| Sequel Med Tech, LLC | 151 | $170,984 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 30 | $111,813 |
| Sanofi US Services Inc. | 1 | $1,810 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 10 | $1,639 |
| Novo Nordisk | 10 | $313 |
| Gilead | 1 | $124 |
| Ascensia Diabetes Care US Inc. | 1 | $120 |
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.
- DEXCOM G7 GSS (161)$57,846
- Omnipod$20,348
- DEXCOM STELO GLUCOSE BIOSENSOR$15,720
- FreeStyle Libre$5,433
- DEXCOM G6 CGM SYSTEM$3,663
- AFREZZA$2,938
- DEXCOM G6 TRANSMITTER$2,469
- t-slim insulin pump$1,150
- MINIMED 780G$375
- t:slim X2 Insulin Pump with Control-IQ$227
- TWIIST$172
- DEXCOM CGM$125
How this compares
$10,909,237 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Santa Barbara
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Joel NeutelTustin$34.9M
- Donald BrandonSan Diego$34M
- William TownerLos Angeles$27.4M
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
- Masoud AzizadNorthridge$21.1M
- Helen StaceyWalnut Creek$20.4M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$15.1M
- Zeid KayaliColton$14.2M
- Alexandra DrakakiSanta Monica$14.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.