Purvi Mehra
Allergy & Immunology · San Diego, CANPI 1336280031
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,661 of the $2,288 with a category attached, or 72.6%. Merck accounts for 70.6% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for allergy & immunology clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $2,148.
Across 32 payments — averaging $71.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$2K
- Eli Lilly$464
- Novo Nordisk AS$137
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$50
- GSK$22
Across 306 payments — averaging $20,513 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$2.7M
- Regeneron$1.4M
- Eli Lilly$884K
- Pfizer$570K
- Merck$401K
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$149K
- plus $153K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$502%
- Travel & lodging$1,66173%
- Food & beverage$57725%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 12 | $1,614 |
| Eli Lilly | 17 | $464 |
| Novo Nordisk AS | 1 | $137 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| GSK | 1 | $22 |
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
$2,288 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 426 allergy & immunology providers in California.
Other allergy & immunology in San Diego
- Bob GengSan Diego$3.3M
- Andrew WhiteSan Diego$752K
- Marc RiedlSan Diego$725K
- Katharine WoessnerSan Diego$581K
- Bruce ZurawSan Diego$232K
- Brian StoneSan Diego$146K
- Bruce PrennerSan Diego$129K
- Seema AcevesSan Diego$122K
- Susan LaubachSan Diego$86K
- Harold HoffmanSan Diego$76K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.