Laurence Lief
Cardiovascular Disease · San Francisco, CANPI 1265590095
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 188 payments — averaging $20.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$891
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$557
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$537
- Johnson & Johnson$382
- Amgen$268
- Merck$205
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,81399%
- Education$471%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 37 | $891 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 28 | $557 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 34 | $537 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 20 | $382 |
| Amgen | 11 | $268 |
| Merck | 11 | $205 |
| Novartis | 4 | $189 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 7 | $155 |
| Abbott | 7 | $138 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $90 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $86 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $80 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $75 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $56 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $25 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Medicomp Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Bayer | 1 | $14 |
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
$3,860 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
Other cardiovascular disease in San Francisco
- Michael BlumSan Francisco$5.5M
- Tony ChouSan Francisco$5.2M
- Theodore AbrahamSan Francisco$1.6M
- Jonathan ZaroffSan Francisco$791K
- Philip SagerSan Francisco$675K
- Javid MoslehiSan Francisco$651K
- Ted LoveHillsborough$102.8M
- Matthew BudoffTorrance$11.3M
- Lori DanielsSan Diego$10.2M
- Paul KurthSanta Barbara$6.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.