Morton Kern
Cardiovascular Disease · Orange, CANPI 1770587131
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 270 payments — averaging $1163.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$78K
- Cathworks, Inc.$39K
- Opsens Inc.$33K
- Abbott$32K
- Acist Medical Systems, Inc.$31K
- Medtronic$22K
- plus $79K from 27 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $750.00 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.
- Cleerly, Inc.$750
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$140,05645%
- Speaking & faculty fees$152,38949%
- Grants$8290%
- Travel & lodging$8,3323%
- Food & beverage$12,1774%
- Entertainment$3420%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 51 | $78,400 |
| Cathworks, Inc. | 28 | $38,794 |
| Opsens Inc. | 25 | $33,196 |
| Abbott | 26 | $31,613 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 17 | $30,803 |
| Medtronic | 30 | $22,449 |
| Abiomed | 17 | $18,899 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $13,602 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 3 | $10,654 |
| Genetesis, Inc. | 1 | $8,310 |
| Spectrawave, Inc | 10 | $7,848 |
| Teleflex LLC | 6 | $6,225 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 4 | $2,925 |
| American Regent | 3 | $2,275 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $2,000 |
| Gentuity, LLC | 2 | $1,825 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $1,079 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 3 | $1,049 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 5 | $890 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $235 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 5 | $187 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $157 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Biolife, L.L.C. | 1 | $110 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 1 | $48 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $45 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $16 |
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.
- LifeVest$78,242
- FFRangio$53,429
- OptoWire$27,130
- OptoMonitor$26,804
- Xience V coronary stent system$22,000
- CVI SYSTEMS$16,352
- Impella$16,348
- FFRct$10,500
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$9,000
- CardioFlux$8,310
- HD-IVUS$8,000
- Devices$6,189
- SavvyWire$6,050
- HyperVue Imaging System$5,848
- LANGSTON$5,299
- Starlight Imaging Catheter$3,081
- POLARIS$2,800
- Dragonfly OCT$2,600
- PRESSUREWIRE$2,285
- Gentuity HF-OCT Imaging System$1,825
How this compares
$314,125 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
Other cardiovascular disease in Orange
- Ted LoveHillsborough$102.8M
- Matthew BudoffTorrance$11.3M
- Lori DanielsSan Diego$10.2M
- Paul KurthSanta Barbara$6.1M
- Michael BlumSan Francisco$5.5M
- Tony ChouSan Francisco$5.2M
- Jason RogersSacramento$5.1M
- Yu-Ping WangStanford$3.8M
- Yogesh PaliwalPomona$3.3M
- Farhad RafiiWest Hills$3.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.