Kara Schaffer
Physician Assistant · San Jose, CANPI 1821613746
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 228 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 36 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,681 and has fallen 90.4% since, to $258 in 2025. Among physician assistant clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 228 payments — averaging $19.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$686
- GSK$683
- AstraZeneca$343
- Lilly USA, LLC$337
- Corcept Therapeutics$267
- Dexcom, Inc.$251
- plus $2K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,369100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 51 | $686 |
| GSK | 51 | $683 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $343 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 17 | $337 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 9 | $267 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 5 | $251 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 12 | $240 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 3 | $165 |
| Organon | 8 | $164 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $153 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $115 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $111 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Merck | 3 | $49 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $49 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $33 |
| Biogen | 1 | $30 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $29 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Bayer | 1 | $24 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 5 | $23 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Zealand Pharma US, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Insulet Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
| Amryt Pharma Holdings Ltd | 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
$4,369 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 10,423 physician assistant providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Fluconazole | 11 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in San Jose
- Andrea NguyenIrvine$1M
- Mikhail AlperMadera$889K
- Erin JensenUpland$716K
- Franklin ClineSacramento$458K
- Carla CrespoMarina del Rey$297K
- Katherine OsakiEl Centro$274K
- Shawna JonesFountain Valley$266K
- Heather AustinSalinas$219K
- Andrea FoxStanford$172K
- Asma HussainiThousand Oaks$102K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.