Stephen Kania
Internal Medicine · Santa Monica, CANPI 1851594469
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $553,970 of the $555,253 with a category attached, or 99.8%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Irhythm Technologies, Inc.. 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 51 payments — averaging $10,887 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Irhythm Technologies, Inc.$555K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$553,970100%
- Travel & lodging$1,2830%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 51 | $555,253 |
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.
- ZIO XT Patch$279,828
- ZIO Patch$275,425
How this compares
$555,253 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Santa Monica
- 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.