Robert Heller
Internal Medicine · Venice, CANPI 1295946804
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by gifts: $20 of the $20 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Pfizer. That places this record below the midpoint for internal medicine clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $147.
Across 1 payment — averaging $20.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$20
Across 1,225 payments — averaging $9518.93 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.
- Pfizer$6.7M
- Modernatx, Inc.$3M
- AbbVie$903K
- Merck$413K
- Astellas Pharma Global Development$256K
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$217K
- plus $146K from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Gifts$20100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 1 | $20 |
How this compares
$20 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Venice
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Tung NgoNewport Beach$4.9M
- Christian EversullStanford$2.9M
- Christian SandrockSacramento$2.1M
- Hatim HusainSan Diego$2M
- Teck LingPalo Alto$1.1M
- Hyong Kimla Jolla$1M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$965K
- Fred CohenSan Francisco$929K
- Steven EdelmanSan Diego$863K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.