Brandon Kobayashi
Hospitalist · San Jose, CANPI 1679078257
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 59 payments — averaging $37.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$456
- Incyte Corporation$161
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$154
- Seagen Inc.$150
- ADC Therapeutics America, Inc.$130
- Merck$116
- plus $1K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,10995%
- Education$1005%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 11 | $456 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $161 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $154 |
| Seagen Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| ADC Therapeutics America, Inc. | 2 | $130 |
| Merck | 4 | $116 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $100 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $91 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $84 |
| GSK | 3 | $79 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $67 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Novartis | 2 | $55 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $50 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Geron Corporation | 1 | $36 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Mirati Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Beone Medicines USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$2,209 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,469 hospitalist providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Acyclovir | 25 | $277 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 11 | $136 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 12 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in San Jose
- John BeckesNational City$15.5M
- Samuel PenzinerLos Angeles$2.5M
- Michael Abdel-MalekDublin$2M
- Billy HourMission Hills$1.9M
- Jennifer SchneiderSanta Rosa$1.2M
- Alpesh AminOrange$929K
- Soham ShahBakersfield$844K
- Deanna CheungLong Beach$732K
- Dennis TsangHuntington Park$672K
- Nana BarseghianPanorama City$510K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.