Albert Askarinam, MD
Family Medicine · Northridge, CANPI 1346305422
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 91 payments — averaging $22.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$622
- Lilly USA, LLC$469
- Amgen$186
- AbbVie$177
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$125
- Exact Sciences$96
- plus $381 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,047100%
- Education$90%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 32 | $622 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 20 | $469 |
| Amgen | 7 | $186 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $177 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $96 |
| Merck | 5 | $95 |
| Gilead | 3 | $65 |
| Bayer | 2 | $41 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $25 |
| GSK | 1 | $23 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $18 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $16 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$2,056 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 10,533 family medicine 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 11 | $1,144 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 81 | $706 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 14 | $489 |
| Metformin Hcl | 41 | $329 |
| Losartan Potassium | 24 | $303 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 24 | $291 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 32 | $234 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 23 | $220 |
| Lisinopril | 18 | $210 |
| Benazepril Hcl | 26 | $169 |
| Naproxen | 26 | $123 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 13 | $114 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 33 | $113 |
| Simvastatin | 13 | $104 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 17 | $100 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Northridge
- Amina HaggagNorthridge$112.8M
- Ruth KavciogluNorthridge$1.6M
- Steven ReynoldsLong Beach$53M
- Rizwana MohseniLake Forest$26.7M
- Daniel JohnsonSan Diego$15.7M
- Stacey LayleSan Diego$14.8M
- Apinya VutikullirdCypress$14.3M
- Hanid AudishSpring Valley$13.6M
- Augusto FocilOxnard$12.6M
- Jack VuLong Beach$10.1M
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.