Christopher Carlin, MD
Procedural Dermatology · San Clemente, CANPI 1336186493
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 386 payments — averaging $22.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Pfizer$910
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$710
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$671
- Johnson & Johnson$663
- Novartis$630
- plus $4K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$8,50298%
- Education$1302%
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(2 entities) | 87 | $1,479 |
| Pfizer | 52 | $910 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 26 | $710 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 23 | $671 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 28 | $663 |
| Novartis | 31 | $630 |
| UCB, Inc. | 12 | $481 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 16 | $452 |
| Sanofi | 16 | $435 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $318 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 13 | $234 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 10 | $227 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $227 |
| Amgen | 8 | $190 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $154 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 9 | $148 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $115 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $105 |
| Incyte Corporation | 5 | $105 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Almirall LLC | 3 | $64 |
| Medimetriks Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $33 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $24 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| LNHC, 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
$8,632 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 108 procedural dermatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketoconazole | 443 | $6,693 |
| Fluorouracil | 83 | $5,567 |
| Tacrolimus | 38 | $3,285 |
| Pimecrolimus | 13 | $2,334 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 46 | $1,743 |
| Calcipotriene | 15 | $1,416 |
| Metronidazole | 38 | $1,409 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 184 | $1,369 |
| Mupirocin | 173 | $1,144 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 57 | $917 |
| Fluocinonide | 18 | $681 |
| Tretinoin | 11 | $638 |
| Ciclopirox | 29 | $504 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $422 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 11 | $397 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other procedural dermatology in San Clemente
- Sabrina FabiSan Diego$6.8M
- Natasha MesinkovskaMission Viejo$4M
- Sam Khalifianla Mesa$3.6M
- Mitchel GoldmanSan Diego$1.5M
- Jeanette BlackLos Angeles$492K
- Suzanne KilmerSacramento$475K
- Rebecca FitzgeraldLos Angeles$324K
- Aram KechichianSanta Clarita$300K
- Christopher ZacharyIrvine$269K
- Hrak JalianSanta Monica$243K
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.