RxDoctor Payments Data

Harry Saperstein, MD

Procedural Dermatology · Beverly Hills, CANPI 1689674715

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 390 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 37 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.

$8,754in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 390 payments — averaging $22.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sanofi$1K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$747
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$645
  • Merz North America, Inc.$561
  • Amgen$556
  • plus $4K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,754100%

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

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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.

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

$8,754 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 108 procedural dermatology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,955,769
Medicare patients
1,873
Services billed
35,347

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
OtezlaApremilast61$292,957
Ketoconazole741$13,549
Hydrocortisone350$12,596
JubliaEfinaconazole11$12,052
CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine402$11,577
Calcipotriene26$7,614
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl194$6,788
Clobetasol Propionate72$6,677
Mupirocin1,023$6,599
Triamcinolone Acetonide452$6,508
Tacrolimus30$5,437
Pimecrolimus22$4,922
Metronidazole67$3,905
Clindamycin Phosphate110$3,857
Fluocinonide78$3,186

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AmgenOtezla$556$292,95761 claims
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCJublia$150$12,05211 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 108 procedural dermatology providers in California.

Other procedural dermatology in Beverly Hills

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