Robert Lipetz
Family Medicine · Spring Valley, CANPI 1467524785
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $276 of the $309 with a category attached, or 89.5%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Novo Nordisk.
Across 10 payments — averaging $30.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$309
Across 156 payments — averaging $5248.40 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.
- Merck$501K
- AbbVie$109K
- GSK$56K
- Pfizer$38K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$31K
- Novartis$28K
- plus $56K from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$27690%
- Education$3210%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 10 | $309 |
How this compares
$309 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.
Other family medicine in Spring Valley
- Sherly SoleimanEncino$1.2M
- Pamela KushnerLos Angeles$1.2M
- Sujata NarayanStanford$1.2M
- Jeffrey UngerChino$906K
- Alexander RivkinLos Angeles$866K
- Scott HowellLos Angeles$793K
- Derrick ButlerLos Angeles$692K
- Sandra CalmanMontara$589K
- Anthony JonesOakland$377K
- Amira AyadBakersfield$360K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.