Buba Marong, MD

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.

• Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla Hospital · La Jolla, CA

Colleagues at Scripps Health

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 1446 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Elise Benik, MOT/L Occupational Therapist · San Diego, CA
• Barbara L Davidson, NP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · LA Jolla, CA
• Dr. Kace A. Ezzet, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · LA Jolla, CA
• Paul Gibbs, MD Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician · LA Jolla, CA
• Dr. James L Hart, MD Internal Medicine Physician · LA Jolla, CA
• Dr. Rebecca Y Hsu, MD Diagnostic Radiology Physician · LA Jolla, CA
• Dr. Joyce M. Ildesa, MD Family Medicine Physician · Santee, CA
• Haley Luebke Morton, MD Family Medicine Physician · San Marcos, CA
• Kathleen A. O'Brien Dermatology Physician · Encinitas, CA
• Dr. Christine Ann Strohmeyer, MD Family Medicine Physician · Vista, CA
• Diane Vu, DO Family Medicine Physician · Encinitas, CA
• Dr. Russell Ronald Zane, MD Family Medicine Physician · Carlsbad, CA

Other providers in LA Jolla

• Dr. Elizabeth Sage Epstein, MD

  Individual Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician · NPI 1265991376

  10820 N Torrey Pines Rd, LA Jolla, CA 92037-1036 · (858) 554-3300

• Kimberly N Hong, MD

  Individual Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician · NPI 1346515442

  9434 Medical Center Dr, LA Jolla, CA 92037-1337 · (858) 249-6752

• Phillip R Tacon, MD

  Individual Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician · NPI 1518586171

  9898 Genesee Ave, LA Jolla, CA 92037-1205 · (858) 554-3300