Margaret Karwecki
Acute Care · Torrance, CANPI 1457658072
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 117 payments — averaging $21.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$418
- Medtronic$209
- Boston Scientific$205
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$168
- Amgen$154
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$154
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1406%
- Food & beverage$2,26289%
- Education$1416%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 20 | $418 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $209 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $205 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $168 |
| Amgen | 8 | $154 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 11 | $154 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $135 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 6 | $131 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $119 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 6 | $110 |
| Abbott | 5 | $96 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $91 |
| Merck | 4 | $87 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $83 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $75 |
| Bayer | 3 | $64 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $52 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $49 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 2 | $47 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $23 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$2,543 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,153 acute care providers in California.
Other acute care in Torrance
- Leslie PetersenCamarillo$370K
- Joyce KhremianSan Dimas$73K
- Eleanor VierraSacramento$64K
- Frances DyLos Angeles$57K
- Savannah HarrisVentura$56K
- Kori Ann JohnstonLos Angeles$42K
- Caroline KwongOrange$42K
- Gregory KnutzenColton$41K
- Sunita BoparaiLos Angeles$37K
- Sherona BauLos Angeles$32K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.