Linda Chen
Las Vegas, NVNPI 1639935521
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 155 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 155 payments — averaging $17.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$449
- Novo Nordisk$384
- Dexcom, Inc.$297
- Amgen$227
- Lilly USA, LLC$204
- Bayer$184
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,769100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 20 | $449 |
| Novo Nordisk | 16 | $384 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 21 | $297 |
| Amgen | 16 | $227 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 11 | $204 |
| Bayer | 15 | $184 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 14 | $183 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 8 | $140 |
| Novartis | 5 | $106 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $92 |
| Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc | 3 | $71 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 3 | $67 |
| Abbott | 2 | $54 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $48 |
| Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Acella Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $15 |
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.
- MINIMED 780G$139
- Ozempic$122
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.