Jihad Jaffer, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Encinitas, CANPI 1366659294
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 27 payments — averaging $83.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$2K
- Merz North America, Inc.$141
- Lifeward, Inc.$79
- Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$47
- Microtransponder, Inc.$42
- Hollister Incorporated$33
- plus $118 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,63373%
- Food & beverage$61127%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 10 | $1,784 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 2 | $141 |
| Lifeward, Inc. | 2 | $79 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Microtransponder, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 1 | $33 |
| Novartis | 2 | $25 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Greenwich Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $16 |
| Promius Pharma LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $11 |
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
$2,243 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 830 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 12 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Encinitas
- Ziyad AyyoubParamount$1.8M
- John ShenFontana$1.3M
- Andrew SkalskySan Diego$463K
- Nanette JoyceSacramento$237K
- Mary OatesSanta Maria$158K
- Jeryl WiensFresno$125K
- Pratik GandhiAnaheim$122K
- Ronald SchillingLong Beach$113K
- Kevin BarretteSan Francisco$84K
- Jeffrey ChenSan Diego$82K
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.