Vikram Garg
Rheumatology · Encinitas, CANPI 1396060869
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 164 payments — averaging $111.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$8K
- Medexus Pharma, Inc.$3K
- Sobi, Inc$2K
- AbbVie$729
- Novo Nordisk$571
- Novartis$516
- plus $4K from 28 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $233,402 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.
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$700K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,07311%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,70047%
- Travel & lodging$3212%
- Food & beverage$7,17539%
- Education$890%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 33 | $7,692 |
| Medexus Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $2,940 |
| Sobi, Inc | 4 | $2,155 |
| AbbVie | 12 | $729 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $571 |
| Novartis | 11 | $516 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $378 |
| Sanofi | 5 | $340 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 11 | $316 |
| GSK | 4 | $272 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 10 | $260 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 3 | $221 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 6 | $205 |
| Cardinal Health 110 LLC | 2 | $200 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $195 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 4 | $187 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $185 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $171 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $165 |
| Abbott | 2 | $134 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $111 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $56 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Bayer | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $14 |
| Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Foundation Medicine, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$18,358 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 808 rheumatology providers in California.
Other rheumatology in Encinitas
- Samy MetyasCovina$12.9M
- Christine ThaiHuntington Beach$8.5M
- Tien-I SuWhittier$8.4M
- Eric LeeUpland$6.9M
- Orrin TroumSanta Monica$6.9M
- Shirley PangFullerton$5.7M
- William RobinsonStanford$5.1M
- Dan laTujunga$5.1M
- Christina Charles-SchoemanLos Angeles$4.8M
- Suneet GrewalWest Hollywood$3.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.