Farjad Sarafian, MD
Infectious Disease · Irvine, CANPI 1881772911
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 26 payments — averaging $617.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Insmed, Inc.$14K
- Mannkind Corporation$1K
- Viiv Healthcare Company$50
- Merz North America, Inc.$19
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,05042%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,55038%
- Travel & lodging$2,17815%
- Food & beverage$6885%
- Education$991%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Insmed, Inc. | 23 | $14,497 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $1,480 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $50 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Arikayce$14,029
How this compares
$16,046 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daptomycin | 12 | $13,655 |
| ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium | 19 | $9,267 |
| Meropenem | 26 | $8,357 |
| Tigecycline | 14 | $6,178 |
| Imipenem-Cilastatin SodiumImipenem/Cilastatin Sodium | 14 | $4,958 |
| Cefazolin Sodium | 26 | $3,973 |
| CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium | 28 | $2,977 |
| Ampicillin Sodium | 26 | $2,711 |
| Amikacin Sulfate | 19 | $1,656 |
| Ethambutol Hcl | 13 | $708 |
| Cefadroxil | 14 | $688 |
| Cefpodoxime Proxetil | 12 | $639 |
| Fluconazole | 15 | $461 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other infectious disease in Irvine
- 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.