Has Eric Harlan, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,217 in general payments to Eric Harlan, MD across 59 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Eric Harlan, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Eric Harlan, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Eric Harlan, MD

Dermatology · Johnston, IANPI 1487809190

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,001 of the $1,217 with a category attached, or 82.3%. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $293 and has fallen 69.8% since, to $88 in 2025.

$1,217in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $20.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$232
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$118
DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$113
AbbVie$107
Pfizer$106
Lilly USA, LLC$78
plus $464 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,00182%
Education$21618%

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
Johnson & Johnson	6	$232
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	8	$118
DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$113
AbbVie	7	$107
Pfizer	6	$106
Lilly USA, LLC	4	$78
Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals	3	$73
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	4	$57
Novartis	3	$54
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	3	$46
Dermavant Sciences, Inc.	2	$41
Organon	3	$34
Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc.	2	$33
Sanofi	1	$27
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$19
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$18
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$17
UCB, Inc.	1	$16
Incyte Corporation	1	$14
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$13

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.

LEVULAN KERASTICK$113

How this compares

$1,217 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 92 dermatology providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$364,333

Medicare patients

893

Services billed

5,502

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
Dupixent PenDupilumab	11	$48,570
Betamethasone Dipropionate	118	$5,295
Clobetasol Propionate	37	$2,346
Triamcinolone Acetonide	167	$1,055
Ketoconazole	84	$995
Doxycycline Monohydrate	79	$958
Fluocinonide	19	$763
Gentamicin Sulfate	14	$311
CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine	19	$311
Minoxidil	21	$189
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	13	$169
Prednisone	21	$69
Spironolactone	11	$55
Mupirocin	14	$53

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Somaira NowsheenWaukee$15K
Laura MyersAnkeny$7K
Katrina SmithAnkeny$7K
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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.

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