Nina Bowens
Vascular Surgery · Long Beach, CANPI 1962559039
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $16,080 of the $21,356 with a category attached, or 75.3%. Cook Incorporated accounts for 75.3% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $9,391 and has fallen 98.1% since, to $180 in 2025.
Across 87 payments — averaging $245.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Incorporated$16K
- Cook Medical LLC$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$568
- Abbott$284
- Penumbra, Inc.$209
- Laminate Medical Technologies Inc.$158
- plus $813 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$16,08075%
- Travel & lodging$1,3296%
- Food & beverage$3,94718%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Incorporated | 4 | $16,080 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 38 | $3,245 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 8 | $568 |
| Abbott | 9 | $284 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $209 |
| Laminate Medical Technologies Inc. | 1 | $158 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $112 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 3 | $88 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $82 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $63 |
| Cagent Vascular Inc | 1 | $52 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $43 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $43 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $32 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $32 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $20 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Zilver PTX$11,335
- Micropuncture$6,116
- Zenith Alpha$214
- Indigo$209
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$186
- ADVANCE$170
- PERFORMER$164
- VasQ External Support$158
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$155
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$140
- VENOVO$128
- Cook Medical Introducers$124
- Zenith$123
- AFX$112
- Ovation$112
- Supera peripheral stent system$107
- Cook Medical Angioplasty$102
- Penumbra Ruby Coil$100
How this compares
$21,356 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 519 vascular surgery providers in California.
Other vascular surgery in Long Beach
- Son DuongFountain Valley$503K
- Venita ChandraPalo Alto$488K
- Sukgu HanLos Angeles$477K
- Leigh Ann ObanionFresno$469K
- Trevor DerderianRancho Mirage$359K
- Karthikeshwar KasirajanPalo Alto$349K
- Johnathon RolloLos Angeles$337K
- Melissa LojaFairfield$272K
- Jason LeePalo Alto$228K
- John LaneSan Diego$212K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.