Lisa Alvarez
Family · Chula Vista, CANPI 1417262718
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 398 payments — averaging $48.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$10K
- Abbott$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$561
- AOP Health US, LLC$497
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$452
- Medtronic$409
- plus $3K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,60024%
- Food & beverage$14,68276%
- Education$1191%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 111 | $10,245 |
| Abbott | 146 | $4,207 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 19 | $561 |
| AOP Health US, LLC | 1 | $497 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 16 | $452 |
| Medtronic | 13 | $409 |
| Novartis | 22 | $408 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $319 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 4 | $315 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 2 | $276 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 10 | $245 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $226 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 5 | $178 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $158 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 2 | $114 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 5 | $100 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $89 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $77 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $74 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $56 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $54 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $42 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $30 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 2 | $27 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $27 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| GSK | 1 | $17 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 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.
- Watchman$3,075
- WATCHMAN Access System$2,507
- Varithena Administration Pack$1,109
- Rapiblyk$995
- Confirm Rx$744
- OPTIMIZER$503
- AVEIR$491
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$319
- FFRct$276
- VersaCross Access Solution$265
- XARELTO$252
- VARITHENA$249
- MitraClip$163
- Farapulse$150
- Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$149
- CardioMEMS HF System$148
- Micra$120
- WATCHMAN FLX$120
- Assure WCD$114
- FARXIGA$105
How this compares
$19,401 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 10,634 family providers in California.
Other family in Chula Vista
- Lori RobertsonChino Hills$475K
- Annette ShonLos Angeles$406K
- Nancy GardettoSan Diego$394K
- Lisa HigginsHanford$311K
- Jennifer TougasBakersfield$302K
- Kim SchaferSacramento$288K
- Dawn MeyerSan Diego$270K
- Jennifer KangCerritos$255K
- Jenine StoneEscondido$231K
- Erin DwyerSan Diego$189K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.