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

Melissa Loja

Vascular Surgery Fairfield, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1578826749 CMS profile 1385912

1860 Pennsylvania Ave Ste 120, Fairfield, CA 94533

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General payments

$271,565

266 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, Melissa Loja of Fairfield, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $271,565 across 266 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 98th percentile of Vascular Surgery 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 $144,670 73
2024 General $41,526 41
2023 General $56,206 51
2022 General $15,170 31
2021 General $5,418 27
2020 General $4,308 15
2019 General $4,267 28

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Melissa Loja
  • Vascular Surgery median
  • Middle half of Vascular Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Melissa Loja were reported at $144,670. Among 3,991 Vascular Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $924 and the middle half received between $273 and $2,636.

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Year Melissa Loja Vascular Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $4,267 $796 $226–$2,363 $163
2020 $4,308 $348 $118–$1,110 $114
2021 $5,418 $471 $158–$1,421 $132
2022 $15,170 $725 $222–$2,183 $149
2023 $56,206 $836 $257–$2,440 $160
2024 $41,526 $909 $252–$2,619 $164
2025 $144,670 $924 $273–$2,636 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Shockwave Medical, Inc $258,351 117 payments
  2. Abbott Laboratories $5,038 17 payments
  3. Medtronic, Inc. $2,733 27 payments
  4. Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. $1,346 22 payments
  5. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $1,035 9 payments
  6. Boston Scientific Corporation $584 12 payments
  7. Reflow Medical Inc $517 5 payments
  8. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. $318 3 payments
  9. Cook Medical LLC $207 2 payments
  10. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $180 4 payments
  11. Other $1,257 48 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $156,225 45 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $80,856 45 payments
  3. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $18,525 5 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $8,634 167 payments
  5. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $6,825 3 payments
  6. Honoraria $500 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter Cardiology $142,222 43 payments
  2. Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter Lithoplasty $105,100 53 payments
  3. Vascular Lithotripsy Lithoplasty $7,070 16 payments
  4. Vascular Lithotripsy Lithoplasty $3,959 5 payments
  5. AMPLATZER AMULET $3,000 2 payments
  6. SUPERA $1,312 8 payments
  7. IN.PACT Admiral $1,025 8 payments
  8. Ellipsys $958 10 payments
  9. ENDURANT IIS $676 6 payments
  10. Valiant Captivia $507 6 payments
  11. Other $4,459 105 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 · 4 drugs

Part D claims

134

Median for Vascular Surgery: 122

Drug cost

$31,659

Median for Vascular Surgery: $14,135

Branded share of claims

89.6%

Median for Vascular Surgery: 71%

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 40 $30,896
Clopidogrel Clopidogrel Bisulfate Brand 53 $398
Atorvastatin Calcium Generic 14 $188
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 27 $177

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 3,087 Part D prescribers listed as Vascular Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 117 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$260,467

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

447

Average age 73

Services billed

1,865

215 women, 232 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 56%
Chronic kidney disease 54%
Ischemic heart disease 49%
Arthritis 44%
Heart failure 37%
COPD 30%
Atrial fibrillation 25%

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

1 product · 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
Kerendia
  • Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $19
$19 — —

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.

Records

266 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

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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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