RxDoctor Payments Data

Albert Chiou, MD

Dermatology · Stanford, CANPI 1609119783

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $10,600 of the $11,270 with a category attached, or 94.1%. Pfizer accounts for 83.2% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $4,950 and has fallen 74.7% since, to $1,250 in 2024.

$11,270in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $1408.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$9K
  • Sanofi$1K
  • AbbVie$515
  • Novartis$125
$908,840in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 221 payments — averaging $4112.40 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.

  • AbbVie$606K
  • Sanofi$279K
  • Regeneron$14K
  • Novartis$5K
  • Sanofi US Services Inc.$4K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$5004%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$10,60094%
  • Food & beverage$1251%
  • Education$450%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Pfizer4$9,381
Sanofi1$1,250
AbbVie2$515
Novartis1$125

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

$11,270 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,875 dermatology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$65,643
Medicare patients
386
Services billed
1,603

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab16$130,893
Dupixent SyringeDupilumab20$77,410
Tacrolimus16$2,954
Clobetasol Propionate34$1,540
Ketoconazole91$1,522
Fluocinonide32$1,080
Metronidazole30$1,038
Sulfacetamide Sodium11$709
Triamcinolone Acetonide55$674
Clindamycin Phosphate24$440
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl11$270
Mupirocin16$166
Hydrocortisone33$159
Finasteride14$63

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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