Valerie Chavez-Arom, MD
Spinal Cord Injury Medicine · Orange, CANPI 1558858696
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,025 of the $5,122 with a category attached, or 78.6%. AbbVie accounts for 90.0% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,635, more than ten times the $154 reported in 2021.
Across 17 payments — averaging $301.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$5K
- Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$196
- International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc$129
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$122
- GSK$26
- Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$23
- plus $20 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,02579%
- Travel & lodging$3507%
- Food & beverage$74715%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 8 | $4,608 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $196 |
| International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc | 2 | $129 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| GSK | 1 | $26 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
How this compares
Too few spinal cord injury medicine providers in Californiato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other spinal cord injury medicine in Orange
- Edward LeroyFresno$12K
- Christopher BoudakianLos Angeles$4K
- Ramin HazanyInglewood$2K
- Patricia NanceLong Beach$1K
- Jeremy LouParamount$581
- Muhammad AkbarClovis$192
- Vernon LinLong Beach$189
- Inder PerkashStanford$153
- Shane StoneSacramento$141
- Roy SasakiPalo Alto$123
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.