Yicheng Tang
Cardiovascular Disease · Mission Viejo, CANPI 1811459811
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,608 of the $5,229 with a category attached, or 88.1%. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 63 payments — averaging $83.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$1K
- Abiomed$886
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$798
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$354
- Boston Scientific$292
- AstraZeneca$246
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,60888%
- Education$62112%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 7 | $1,053 |
| Abiomed | 10 | $886 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 10 | $798 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $354 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $292 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $246 |
| Amgen | 3 | $211 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $204 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $180 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $154 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 2 | $140 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $135 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $120 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $75 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $72 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $70 |
| Merck | 2 | $48 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $44 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Novartis | 2 | $40 |
| Bayer | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $22 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 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.
- ENSITE$553
- Impella$542
- LifeVest$457
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$354
- AVVIGO Guidance System$221
- XIENCE SKYPOINT$182
- Barostim Neo System$180
- GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$154
- PRESSUREWIRE$147
- Repatha$134
- BRILINTA$126
- ONPATTRO$122
- WAINUA$120
- ARCALYST$120
- ASSURITY$109
- MANTA$108
How this compares
$5,229 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
Other cardiovascular disease in Mission Viejo
- Ted LoveHillsborough$102.8M
- Paul KurthSanta Barbara$6.1M
- Jason RogersSacramento$4.4M
- Matthew BudoffTorrance$3.6M
- Eric Topolla Jolla$2.2M
- Cathleen Bairey-MerzLos Angeles$1.2M
- Gagan SinghSacramento$1.2M
- Pam Taubla Jolla$1.2M
- Wilber SuStanford$1.1M
- Thomas SmithSacramento$942K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.