Pooja Desai
Internal Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1992200786
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 213 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 43.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,258, more than ten times the $220 reported in 2021. Among internal medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 213 payments — averaging $63.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$6K
- Abiomed$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$1K
- Heartflow, Inc.$625
- Inari Medical, Inc.$391
- plus $1K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$13,537100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 105 | $5,855 |
| Abiomed | 31 | $2,132 |
| Boston Scientific | 37 | $2,039 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 18 | $1,351 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 5 | $625 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $391 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $270 |
| Abbott | 5 | $257 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $194 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $166 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $125 |
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.
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$833
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$605
- FFRct$480
- Emerge Push$451
- Impella$400
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$356
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$356
- EVOQUE$335
- WATCHMAN FLX$334
- Indigo System$270
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$216
- SYMPLICITY G3$166
- LifeVest$125
- Sentinel$121
- PASCAL$119
- ROTAPRO$109
- DRAGONFLY OPSTAR$102
How this compares
$13,537 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 63 | $495 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 29 | $248 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 13 | $121 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Los Angeles
- William HardyLos Angeles$704K
- Soha DolatabadiLos Angeles$458K
- Matthew HerrmannLos Angeles$384K
- Koppany VisnyeiLos Angeles$287K
- Jaime BetancourtLos Angeles$286K
- William KingLos Angeles$227K
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Tung NgoNewport Beach$4.9M
- Christian EversullStanford$2.9M
- Christian SandrockSacramento$2.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.