Laura Pace
Gastroenterology · Stanford, CANPI 1104142025
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (50.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc. accounts for 85.5% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,552 and has fallen 89.9% since, to $157 in 2025.
Across 30 payments — averaging $121.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc.$3K
- Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$106
- AbbVie$103
- Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation$95
- Tersera Therapeutics LLC$87
- Amgen$65
- plus $70 from 3 others
Across 279 payments — averaging $892.32 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.
- Argenx US, Inc.$231K
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$18K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,00028%
- Travel & lodging$79122%
- Food & beverage$1,84251%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc. | 19 | $3,108 |
| Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $103 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 2 | $95 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 3 | $87 |
| Amgen | 1 | $65 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $30 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $22 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$3,633 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other gastroenterology in Stanford
- Joo HwangStanford$1M
- Shai FriedlandStanford$452K
- Mike WeiStanford$382K
- Margaret ZhouStanford$288K
- Andrew LiStanford$217K
- Walter ParkStanford$216K
- Paul KwoStanford$150K
- Bennett RothLos Angeles$2.8M
- Douglas NguyenMission Viejo$2M
- Sammy SaabLos Angeles$1.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.