Joss Cohen, MD
Neurology · Santa Monica, CANPI 1235689332
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 307 payments — averaging $24.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- UCB, Inc.$1K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Novartis$688
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$686
- Biogen$359
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1752%
- Food & beverage$7,46998%
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) | 63 | $1,450 |
| UCB, Inc. | 75 | $1,421 |
| AstraZeneca | 28 | $1,004 |
| Novartis | 45 | $688 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 27 | $686 |
| Biogen | 10 | $359 |
| TG Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $285 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 10 | $279 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $259 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 2 | $173 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| Amgen | 2 | $142 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 6 | $137 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 5 | $130 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $124 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $95 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 3 | $73 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 2 | $55 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$7,644 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,996 neurology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gamunex-CImmune Globul G/Gly/Iga Avg 46 | 11 | $109,378 |
| Lacosamide | 29 | $10,882 |
| Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa | 115 | $3,236 |
| Entacapone | 19 | $3,114 |
| Levetiracetam | 69 | $2,675 |
| Gabapentin | 84 | $1,471 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 35 | $1,458 |
| Donepezil Hcl | 73 | $1,419 |
| Pregabalin | 40 | $1,346 |
| Memantine Hcl ErMemantine Hcl | 12 | $955 |
| Primidone | 29 | $881 |
| Memantine Hcl | 29 | $726 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 40 | $639 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 19 | $549 |
| Topiramate | 21 | $325 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurology in Santa Monica
- David KudrowSanta Monica$12.8M
- Naveed WagleSanta Monica$1.8M
- Santosh KesariSanta Monica$1.6M
- Timothy CloughesyLos Angeles$33.1M
- Jack FlorinFullerton$13M
- John Ravitsla Jolla$8.4M
- Perminder BhatiaFresno$8.3M
- Perry ShiehLos Angeles$8.2M
- Benjamin FrishbergCarlsbad$8.2M
- Bruce CreeSan Francisco$8M
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.