Luciano del Toro Vargas
Family Medicine · Santa Monica, CANPI 1649451550
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 70 payments — averaging $17.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$206
- Novo Nordisk$169
- GSK$117
- AbbVie$85
- Amgen$80
- Dynavax Technologies Corporation$61
- plus $505 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,20498%
- Education$202%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 13 | $206 |
| Novo Nordisk | 9 | $169 |
| GSK | 6 | $117 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $85 |
| Amgen | 5 | $80 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 4 | $61 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $54 |
| Bayer | 3 | $53 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 3 | $52 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $44 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Organon | 3 | $30 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $27 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,224 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 16 | $133 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Santa Monica
- Amina HaggagNorthridge$112.8M
- Steven ReynoldsLong Beach$53M
- Rizwana MohseniLake Forest$26.7M
- Daniel JohnsonSan Diego$15.7M
- Stacey LayleSan Diego$14.8M
- Apinya VutikullirdCypress$14.3M
- Hanid AudishSpring Valley$13.6M
- Augusto FocilOxnard$12.6M
- Jack VuLong Beach$10.1M
- Suzanne FussellOxnard$8.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.