Akil Merchant, MD
Hematology & Oncology · Los Angeles, CANPI 1821074857
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 147 payments — averaging $3348.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$314K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$71K
- Novartis$41K
- Genmab U.S., Inc.$28K
- Amgen$15K
- AbbVie$14K
- plus $9K from 5 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $1802.73 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$20K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$23,42815%
- Speaking & faculty fees$119,60578%
- Travel & lodging$8,2215%
- Food & beverage$2,6852%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 37 | $313,783 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 41 | $71,269 |
| Novartis | 3 | $41,358 |
| Genmab U.S., Inc. | 27 | $27,629 |
| Amgen | 8 | $15,007 |
| AbbVie | 15 | $14,109 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 10 | $4,891 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $2,225 |
| BD | 1 | $799 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $672 |
| Vertex | 1 | $508 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$492,249 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,363 hematology & oncology providers in California.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other hematology & oncology in Los Angeles
- David BerzLos Angeles$43.3M
- Nicholas McAndrewLos Angeles$22.9M
- Antoni RibasLos Angeles$13M
- Gary SchillerLos Angeles$11.9M
- Matthew RettigLos Angeles$8.2M
- Lasika SeneviratneLos Angeles$8.1M
- Gary BuchschacherLos Angeles$7.9M
- Edward GaronLos Angeles$7.9M
- Gottfried KonecnyLos Angeles$7.6M
- Sven de VosLos Angeles$6.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.