Bachir Younes
Infectious Disease · Palm Desert, CANPI 1184661571
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 319 payments — averaging $25.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$814
- Cipla USA Inc.$761
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$707
- Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$651
- Insmed, Inc.$646
- AbbVie$625
- plus $4K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,79496%
- Education$3474%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 47 | $814 |
| Cipla USA Inc. | 2 | $761 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 42 | $707 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 45 | $651 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 23 | $646 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 24 | $625 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 28 | $513 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 12 | $445 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 10 | $321 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 16 | $303 |
| Shionogi Inc | 5 | $300 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $214 |
| CSL Behring | 4 | $194 |
| Amgen | 6 | $194 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $145 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 7 | $140 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $128 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 7 | $126 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $125 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $97 |
| Janssen Products, LP | 1 | $96 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $90 |
| Abbott | 1 | $73 |
| Gilead | 4 | $73 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $39 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $23 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $19 |
| GSK | 1 | $14 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $12 |
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
$8,141 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 856 infectious disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gammagard LiquidImmun Glob G(Igg)/Gly/Iga Ov50 | 185 | $1,236,828 |
| GammakedImmune Globul G/Gly/Iga Avg 46 | 125 | $818,570 |
| PanzygaImmun Glob G(Igg)-Ifas/Glycine | 57 | $473,513 |
| OctagamImmun Globg(Igg)/Malt/Iga Ov50 | 53 | $437,756 |
| OdefseyEmtricitab/Rilpiviri/Tenof Ala | 58 | $215,736 |
| JulucaDolutegravir/Rilpivirine | 54 | $196,802 |
| Gamunex-CImmune Globul G/Gly/Iga Avg 46 | 50 | $192,948 |
| GenvoyaElviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen | 38 | $154,331 |
| DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam | 50 | $113,965 |
| Daptomycin | 207 | $86,360 |
| PrivigenImmun Glob G(Igg)/Pro/Iga 0-50 | 13 | $64,911 |
| TriumeqAbacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi | 14 | $52,255 |
| PrezcobixDarunavir/Cobicistat | 19 | $50,371 |
| OrenciaAbatacept/Maltose | 11 | $44,975 |
| TivicayDolutegravir Sodium | 20 | $44,355 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Gammagard Liquid | $90 | $1,236,828185 claims |
| PfizerPanzyga, Octagam | $39 | $911,269110 claims |
| Viiv Healthcare CompanyJuluca, Triumeq, Tivicay | $303 | $293,41288 claims |
| GileadGenvoya, Descovy | $73 | $268,29688 claims |
| CSL BehringPrivigen | $194 | $64,91113 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonPrezcobix | $513 | $50,37119 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncCresemba | $321 | $22,37313 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 856 infectious disease providers in California.
Other infectious disease in Palm Desert
- Peter RuaneLos Angeles$24.6M
- Raphael LandovitzLos Angeles$21.4M
- Philip RobinsonNewport Beach$4.9M
- Shawn HasslerSan Francisco$4.3M
- James McKinnellTorrance$4.3M
- Loren MillerTorrance$4.1M
- Jay GladsteinLos Angeles$4M
- Claire PomeroySacramento$3.8M
- Franco FelizartaBakersfield$3.5M
- Abhijit LimayeSan Francisco$2.9M
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.