Paul Maher
Cardiovascular Disease · Pasadena, CANPI 1750348942
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 196 payments — averaging $18.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$823
- Novartis$579
- Pfizer$422
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$243
- Abbott$234
- Biotronik Inc.$203
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,63099%
- Education$401%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 51 | $823 |
| Novartis | 35 | $579 |
| Pfizer | 18 | $422 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 17 | $243 |
| Abbott | 13 | $234 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 3 | $203 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 9 | $165 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $155 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 11 | $141 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $139 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $127 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $101 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $89 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $81 |
| Merck | 2 | $44 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Gilead | 1 | $22 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $22 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $17 |
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
$3,670 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
Other cardiovascular disease in Pasadena
- 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.