Has Paula Ann Lidestri, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,670 in general payments to Paula Ann Lidestri, MD across 17 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Paula Ann Lidestri, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Paula Ann Lidestri, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Paula Ann Lidestri, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Palm Springs, CANPI 1053405712

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,670in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $98.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$864
AstraZeneca$153
Grifols USA, LLC$136
Si-bone, Inc.$134
Intuitive Surgical$119
Medtronic$111
plus $154 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,670100%

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
Johnson & Johnson	9	$864
AstraZeneca	2	$153
Grifols USA, LLC	1	$136
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$134
Intuitive Surgical	1	$119
Medtronic	1	$111
Biogen	1	$104
ERBE USA Inc	1	$50

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

$1,670 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 830 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$54,418

Medicare patients

Services billed

621

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Pantoprazole Sodium	30	$232
Gabapentin	15	$130
Rosuvastatin Calcium	18	$76
Tamsulosin Hcl	12	$67
Amlodipine Besylate	14	$67
Metoprolol Tartrate	11	$38
Famotidine	11	$37
Losartan Potassium	12	$30

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Jeryl WiensFresno$125K
Pratik GandhiAnaheim$122K
Ronald SchillingLong Beach$113K
Kevin BarretteSan Francisco$84K
Jeffrey ChenSan Diego$82K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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