Thomas Ahern
Cardiovascular Disease · la Jolla, CANPI 1073599858
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 125 payments — averaging $244.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lundbeck LLC$25K
- Acutus Medical, Inc.$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Abbott$488
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$457
- Johnson & Johnson$322
- plus $745 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,05010%
- Speaking & faculty fees$20,50068%
- Grants$5452%
- Travel & lodging$1,6886%
- Food & beverage$4,25814%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lundbeck LLC | 28 | $25,382 |
| Acutus Medical, Inc. | 17 | $1,784 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $1,352 |
| Abbott | 1 | $488 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 20 | $457 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 21 | $322 |
| Amgen | 8 | $200 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 3 | $127 |
| Novartis | 5 | $117 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $72 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $54 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $50 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $33 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
| Bayer | 1 | $13 |
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.
- NORTHERA$25,217
- Watchman$750
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$545
How this compares
$30,529 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
Other cardiovascular disease in la Jolla
- Pam Taubla Jolla$3.2M
- Eric Topolla Jolla$2.2M
- Douglas Gibsonla Jolla$2.2M
- Ted LoveHillsborough$102.8M
- Matthew BudoffTorrance$11.3M
- Lori DanielsSan Diego$10.2M
- Paul KurthSanta Barbara$6.1M
- Michael BlumSan Francisco$5.5M
- Tony ChouSan Francisco$5.2M
- Jason RogersSacramento$5.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.