Teresita Salazar-Guadiz
Pediatrics · Bellflower, CANPI 1548343932
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,103 of the $1,647 with a category attached, or 67.0%. Merck accounts for 94.3% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,384 and has fallen 96.8% since, to $45 in 2025. Among pediatrics clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 25 payments — averaging $65.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$2K
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$52
- Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC$25
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$17
Across 294 payments — averaging $9305.05 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$1.3M
- Novavax Inc$778K
- Merck$487K
- GSK$104K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$41K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,10367%
- Food & beverage$54433%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 20 | $1,553 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 3 | $52 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- V114$1,048
How this compares
$1,647 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,539 pediatrics providers in California.
Other pediatrics in Bellflower
- Laurene MascolaLos Angeles$451K
- Tonya ChaffeeSan Francisco$359K
- Anthony PortaleSan Francisco$354K
- David KesslerSan Francisco$335K
- Lawrence SherRolling Hills Estates$297K
- Steven BlackOakland$228K
- Jonathan StroberSan Francisco$164K
- Hasmukh AminBakersfield$140K
- Colleen KraftNewport Beach$122K
- Lela BachrachOakland$119K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.