Michael Fong, MD
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Los Angeles, CANPI 1407863756
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,938 of the $9,367 with a category attached, or 74.1%. Cvrx, Inc. accounts for 65.0% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,304 and has fallen 74.5% since, to $1,605 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $9,367.
Across 46 payments — averaging $203.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cvrx, Inc.$6K
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$1K
- Abbott$551
- Medtronic$350
- Ancora Heart, Inc.$263
- Boston Scientific$163
- plus $640 from 12 others
Across 318 payments — averaging $1107.32 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Cvrx, Inc.$78K
- Pfizer$68K
- Novo Nordisk AS$58K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$45K
- Boston Scientific$36K
- AstraZeneca$23K
- plus $43K from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,93874%
- Food & beverage$2,24424%
- Education$1852%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $6,087 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 7 | $1,312 |
| Abbott | 11 | $551 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $350 |
| Ancora Heart, Inc. | 2 | $263 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $163 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $144 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $129 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $97 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $64 |
| Novartis | 2 | $25 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $25 |
| Merck | 1 | $22 |
| Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $12 |
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
$9,367 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 111 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| VyndamaxTafamidis | 16 | $488,684 |
| Ambrisentan | 17 | $158,439 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 101 | $104,370 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 81 | $99,214 |
| CamzyosMavacamten | 11 | $87,048 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 41 | $56,179 |
| EliquisApixaban | 36 | $34,855 |
| KerendiaFinerenone | 17 | $15,310 |
| LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate | 27 | $15,257 |
| VerquvoVericiguat | 12 | $11,413 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 11 | $4,451 |
| Eplerenone | 47 | $4,037 |
| Spironolactone | 174 | $1,912 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 28 | $1,629 |
| Bumetanide | 21 | $1,568 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma | $25 | $114,471108 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $25 | $104,370101 claims |
| MerckVerquvo | $22 | $11,41312 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 50th percentile of 111 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in California.
Other advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology in Los Angeles
- Eugene DepasqualeLos Angeles$104K
- Joseph RahmanLos Angeles$101K
- Jon KobashigawaLos Angeles$54K
- Ajay VaidyaLos Angeles$17K
- Aaron WolfsonLos Angeles$16K
- Richard WrightSanta Monica$1.7M
- James Heywoodla Jolla$1.2M
- Hirsch MehtaSan Diego$494K
- Teresa de MarcoSan Francisco$366K
- Rajeev Mohanla Jolla$357K
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.