MS. Sindhu Alexander, MSN, APRN, AGNP-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.

• Peninsula Medical Center Hospital · Burlingame, CA · listed as Peninsula Medical Group

Colleagues at Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 3762 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Lance David Hein, PA-C Surgical Physician Assistant · San Francisco, CA
• Mr. James Joseph Hershon, MD Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician · San Francisco, CA
• Dr. George Sydney Lau, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Mountain View, CA
• Elizabeth Wei Ling Lee, MD Family Medicine Physician · Palo Alto, CA
• Emily Tang Lim, CNM Advanced Practice Midwife · Sunnyvale, CA
• Dr. Brandon Son Truong Nguyen, DO Anesthesiology Physician · San Francisco, CA
• Linda C. Panico, RD, CDE Registered Dietitian · San Francisco, CA
• Allan Pont, MD Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician · San Francisco, CA
• Hengameh Shahidpoor, ARNP Nurse Practitioner · Palo Alto, CA
• Yichieh Shiuey, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Sunnyvale, CA
• Valerie Spier, RD Registered Dietitian · Fremont, CA
• Dr. Brad Aaron Zwahlen, MD Specialist · Berkeley, CA