Michael Waters
Emergency Medicine · Chula Vista, CANPI 1801829775
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 3 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Stryker accounts for 65.7% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 3 payments — averaging $85.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$168
- Antares Pharma, Inc.$44
- BD$44
Across 4,080 payments — averaging $3260.03 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$4.9M
- Roche Products Limited$1.3M
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$1.3M
- Genentech, Inc.$1.2M
- Novavax Inc$524K
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$463K
- plus $3.6M from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$256100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 1 | $168 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| BD | 1 | $44 |
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.
- MAKO$168
How this compares
$256 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 6,006 emergency medicine providers in California.
Other emergency medicine in Chula Vista
- Andres SmithChula Vista$20K
- Michael BlueLone Pine$915K
- Andrew AccardiEncinitas$383K
- Fredrick Melik-AbrahamianSylmar$354K
- Graham WalkerStanford$309K
- Douglas WhiteOakland$220K
- Paul PearigenSan Diego$208K
- Richard KozakMission Viejo$203K
- Oron FrenkelSan Francisco$201K
- Matthew KaplanMission Viejo$195K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.