Meghan K. Torres, PA-C

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

• Providence Mission Hospital Hospital · Mission Viejo, CA · listed as Mission Hospital
• Providence St. Joseph Hospital Hospital · Orange, CA
• Providence St. Jude Medical Center Hospital · Fullerton, CA

Colleagues at Orange County Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons a Med Corp

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice.

• Ryan Nicholas Chan, PA Surgical Physician Assistant · Orange, CA
• Sevak Hovhannes Darbinian, MD Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician · Orange, CA
• Dr. Aaron B Fowler, MD Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician · Orange, CA
• Abraham David Gadelov, PA-C Physician Assistant · Mission Viejo, CA
• Gaston Jeremiah, PHYSICIANASSISTANT Surgical Physician Assistant · Stanford, CA
• Dr. Brian Avecilla Palafox, MD Specialist · Orange, CA
• Sohail Sareh, MD Surgery Physician · Orange, CA
• Taylor Tang, MD Surgery Physician · Orange, CA
• William N Thibault, MD Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician · Orange, CA

Other providers in Rancho Santa Margarita

• Mr. Robert Duane Frost, PA-C

  Individual Surgical Physician Assistant · NPI 1114044633

  22431 Antonio Pkwy # B160-613, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688-2804 · (855) 727-2251

• Stephen Rogitz, PA-C

  Individual Surgical Physician Assistant · NPI 1245888767

  22431 Antonio Pkwy # B160613, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688-2804 · (855) 727-2251

• Miss. Amanda Jane Shanklin, MPAP, PA-C

  Individual Surgical Physician Assistant · NPI 1972827301

  22431 Antonio Pkwy # B160-613, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688-2804 · (833) 477-2677