Robert Heller
Internal Medicine · Venice, CANPI 1295946804
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,213 payments — averaging $9612.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$6.7M
- Modernatx, Inc.$3M
- AbbVie$902K
- Merck$413K
- Astellas Pharma Global Development$256K
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$217K
- plus $146K from 2 others
Across 13 payments — averaging $89.92 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.
- AbbVie$1K
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 | 226 | $6,687,709 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 441 | $3,037,447 |
| AbbVie | 95 | $902,095 |
| Merck | 286 | $412,786 |
| Astellas Pharma Global Development | 58 | $256,427 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 95 | $216,888 |
| Amgen | 7 | $113,305 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 5 | $32,884 |
How this compares
$11,659,540 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Venice
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Joel NeutelTustin$34.9M
- Donald BrandonSan Diego$34M
- William TownerLos Angeles$27.4M
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
- Masoud AzizadNorthridge$21.1M
- Helen StaceyWalnut Creek$20.4M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$15.1M
- Zeid KayaliColton$14.2M
- Alexandra DrakakiSanta Monica$14.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.