Nguyen Thong
Neurology · Patton, CANPI 1962448217
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.0% of the total across 284 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 42 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,698 and has fallen 96.4% since, to $133 in 2025.
Across 284 payments — averaging $23.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$559
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$491
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$489
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$425
- Biogen$272
- plus $3K from 36 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$681%
- Food & beverage$6,62999%
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.
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
$6,697 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,996 neurology providers in California.
Other neurology in Patton
- Andrew BlumenfeldCarlsbad$4.9M
- Khashayar DashtipourLoma Linda$3.3M
- Regina BerkovichWest Hollywood$3M
- Daniel BandariNewport Beach$2.6M
- Perry ShiehLos Angeles$2.4M
- Sandeep ThakkarIrvine$2M
- David LiebeskindLos Angeles$1.9M
- Jack SchimCarlsbad$1.7M
- Parshaw DorrizMission Viejo$1.5M
- Benjamin FrishbergCarlsbad$1.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.