Madeline Tien
Physician Assistant · Glendale, CANPI 1568041424
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,813 of the $4,911 with a category attached, or 77.6%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 36.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,085 and has fallen 63.8% since, to $755 in 2025. Among physician assistant clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 73 payments — averaging $67.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation$868
- Potrero Medical, Inc.$275
- Abiomed$170
- Edwards Lifesciences$156
- plus $626 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,09822%
- Food & beverage$3,81378%
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 | 26 | $1,777 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 9 | $1,041 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 5 | $868 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 5 | $275 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $170 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $156 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $135 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $102 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $99 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $62 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $33 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $29 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Merck | 1 | $21 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Solventum Corporation | 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
$4,911 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 10,423 physician assistant 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 55 | $32,985 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 23 | $16,993 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 38 | $447 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Glendale
- Andrea NguyenIrvine$1M
- Mikhail AlperMadera$889K
- Erin JensenUpland$716K
- Franklin ClineSacramento$458K
- Carla CrespoMarina del Rey$297K
- Katherine OsakiEl Centro$274K
- Shawna JonesFountain Valley$266K
- Heather AustinSalinas$219K
- Andrea FoxStanford$172K
- Asma HussainiThousand Oaks$102K
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.