Sylvia Chen
Physician Assistant · Santa Monica, CANPI 1023131786
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 130 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 31 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $739 and has fallen 67.6% since, to $239 in 2025.
Across 130 payments — averaging $18.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Organon$346
- Novo Nordisk$339
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$204
- AbbVie$193
- Evofem Biosciences, Inc.$144
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$136
- plus $1K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,452100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Organon | 16 | $346 |
| Novo Nordisk | 14 | $339 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 22 | $204 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $193 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 8 | $144 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $136 |
| Bayer | 6 | $127 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $123 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 4 | $83 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 3 | $62 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $58 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $49 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $37 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $35 |
| Cepheid | 1 | $34 |
| Amgen | 1 | $25 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Millicent US Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $21 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $21 |
| Ascend Therapeutics US, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Medicem Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Saxenda$113
How this compares
$2,452 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 10,423 physician assistant providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol (Twice Weekly)Estradiol | 14 | $1,149 |
| ProgesteroneProgesterone, Micronized | 18 | $735 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.