Has Jay Applebaum, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,897 in general payments to Jay Applebaum, MD across 591 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 Jay Applebaum, 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 Jay Applebaum, 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.

Jay Applebaum, MD

Procedural Dermatology · Tustin, CANPI 1740214618

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,897in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 591 payments — averaging $21.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$2K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
Novartis$1K
LEO Pharma Inc.$1K
Sanofi$977
Lilly USA, LLC$887
plus $6K from 26 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$120%
Travel & lodging$20%
Food & beverage$12,57497%
Education$3102%

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)	109	$2,012
Johnson & Johnson	53	$1,238
Novartis	72	$1,208
LEO Pharma Inc.	41	$1,017
Sanofi	27	$977
Lilly USA, LLC	47	$887
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	29	$863
Pfizer	41	$844
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	37	$575
Amgen	18	$424
UCB, Inc.	14	$409
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	17	$383
Incyte Corporation	14	$336
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	3	$249
Dermavant Sciences, Inc.	10	$214
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	7	$199
Boehringer Ingelheim	6	$161
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	8	$140
Strata Skin Sciences, Inc.	7	$137
EPI Health, LLC	5	$126
Biofrontera Inc.	5	$108
VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$56
Journey Medical Corporation	3	$55
Dermira, Inc.	2	$44
Sandoz	2	$40
Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$37
Almirall LLC	2	$37
Organon	2	$37
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$36
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$24
Mindera Corp	1	$15
Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals	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.

How this compares

$12,897 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 108 procedural dermatology providers in California.

See all procedural dermatology providers in California →

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$222,728

Medicare patients

564

Services billed

4,424

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
Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab	11	$74,620
Dupixent SyringeDupilumab	21	$71,686
Clobetasol Propionate	52	$2,735
Fluocinonide	38	$1,514
Triamcinolone Acetonide	120	$1,193
Nystatin-TriamcinoloneNystatin/Triamcinolone Acet	21	$1,084
Metronidazole	21	$993
Doxycycline Hyclate	31	$949
Imiquimod	24	$634
Nystatin	27	$540
Ketoconazole	32	$532
Clindamycin Phosphate	18	$449
Hydrocortisone	37	$378
Pentoxifylline	21	$287
Doxepin Hcl	14	$214

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other procedural dermatology in Tustin

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

See the full list for California →

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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