Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

John Lien

Cardiovascular Disease San Jose, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1932291648 CMS profile 179183

200 Jose Figueres Ave, #330, San Jose, CA 95116

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General payments

$31,757

478 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, John Lien of San Jose, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $31,757 across 478 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 91st percentile of Cardiovascular Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,512 47
2024 General $1,747 59
2023 General $2,535 86
2022 General $6,854 73
2021 General $1,643 39
2020 General $4,326 50
2019 General $13,140 124

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • John Lien
  • Cardiovascular Disease median
  • Middle half of Cardiovascular Disease
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to John Lien were reported at $1,512. Among 16,617 Cardiovascular Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $432 and the middle half received between $132 and $1,252.

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Year John Lien Cardiovascular Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $13,140 $450 $127–$1,392 $163
2020 $4,326 $242 $77–$751 $114
2021 $1,643 $335 $101–$1,037 $132
2022 $6,854 $395 $121–$1,211 $149
2023 $2,535 $443 $136–$1,283 $160
2024 $1,747 $450 $136–$1,323 $164
2025 $1,512 $432 $132–$1,252 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $10,177 74 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $6,520 57 payments
  3. Biotronik Inc. $2,274 9 payments
  4. Lilly USA, LLC $1,688 3 payments
  5. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $1,283 8 payments
  6. Amarin Pharma Inc. $1,234 60 payments
  7. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $1,094 39 payments
  8. Novo Nordisk Inc $1,050 36 payments
  9. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $1,047 37 payments
  10. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $880 30 payments
  11. Other $4,510 125 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $13,788 9 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $13,547 380 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $2,674 6 payments
  4. Consulting Fee $1,125 2 payments
  5. Education $624 81 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. JARDIANCE Diabetes $10,016 51 payments
  2. WATCHMAN Access System $4,644 11 payments
  3. JARDIANCE Diabetes $1,688 3 payments
  4. Reveal LINQ $1,283 8 payments
  5. VERQUVO $1,274 46 payments
  6. Vascepa $920 46 payments
  7. FARXIGA $770 26 payments
  8. WATCHMAN $724 15 payments
  9. WATCHMAN FLX $600 16 payments
  10. ELIQUIS $500 25 payments
  11. Other $9,597 298 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 49 drugs

Part D claims

7,662

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$2,025,543

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

39.6%

Median for Cardiology: 25.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 730 $727,373
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 329 $297,433
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 187 $225,564
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 127 $146,993
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 129 $126,830
Vascepa Icosapent Ethyl Brand 163 $102,861
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 109 $64,457
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 69 $50,064
Verquvo Vericiguat Brand 41 $44,026
Rybelsus Semaglutide Brand 17 $37,879

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 49 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,782 Part D prescribers listed as Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 30 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$590,965

Of which drugs: $3,593

Medicare patients

719

Average age 78

Services billed

3,279

423 women, 296 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Diabetes 60%
Chronic kidney disease 39%
Heart failure 37%
Ischemic heart disease 36%
Arthritis 33%
Osteoporosis 27%
Atrial fibrillation 22%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, regadenoson, 0.1 mg J2785 Office 146 592 $3,270
Injection, aminophyllin, up to 250 mg J0280 Office 52 53 $323

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 17 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
Repatha
  • Amgen Inc. $224
$224 69 —
Arcalyst
  • Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, plc $209
$209 — —
VERQUVO
  • Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $199
$199 41 —
CAMZYOS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $172
$172 — —
FARXIGA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $127
$127 129 —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

478 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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