Cheri Ponce
Physician Assistant · Fresno, CANPI 1134374465
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 721 payments — averaging $18.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Incyte Corporation$1K
- Lilly USA, LLC$780
- Novartis$762
- plus $6K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1021%
- Food & beverage$12,50494%
- Education$6725%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 151 | $2,363 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 46 | $1,241 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 67 | $1,188 |
| Incyte Corporation | 64 | $1,062 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 65 | $780 |
| Novartis | 50 | $762 |
| Sanofi | 39 | $744 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 33 | $711 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 25 | $658 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 36 | $630 |
| Pfizer | 21 | $460 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 19 | $407 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 40 | $396 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 13 | $391 |
| UCB, Inc. | 14 | $379 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 9 | $313 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $222 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 3 | $135 |
| Amgen | 6 | $130 |
| Organon | 6 | $82 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 4 | $58 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $40 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $26 |
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
$13,279 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 10,423 physician assistant providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tacrolimus | 82 | $11,218 |
| Pimecrolimus | 23 | $7,744 |
| Fluorouracil | 101 | $6,778 |
| Ketoconazole | 298 | $6,736 |
| Ivermectin | 17 | $4,617 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 85 | $3,715 |
| Calcipotriene | 18 | $3,590 |
| Metronidazole | 61 | $2,512 |
| Tretinoin | 25 | $1,595 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 73 | $1,591 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 152 | $1,092 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 32 | $639 |
| Nystatin | 29 | $611 |
| Minoxidil | 59 | $603 |
| Fluocinonide | 23 | $596 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Fresno
- Brooke KutkaFresno$67K
- David BakerFresno$37K
- John QuigleyDowney$2.9M
- Andrea NguyenIrvine$1M
- Mikhail AlperMadera$889K
- Erin JensenUpland$716K
- Franklin ClineSacramento$458K
- Carla CrespoMarina del Rey$297K
- Katherine OsakiEl Centro$274K
- Shawna JonesFountain Valley$266K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.