Karl Bassler, MD
Dermatology · Laguna Hills, CANPI 1215938949
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 76 payments — averaging $25.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- LEO Pharma Inc.$310
- Pfizer$296
- Johnson & Johnson$231
- Novartis$199
- Bristol Myers Squibb$137
- AbbVie$128
- plus $613 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,84296%
- Education$724%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 14 | $310 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $296 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $231 |
| Novartis | 5 | $199 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 4 | $137 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $128 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 2 | $113 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $66 |
| Amgen | 3 | $58 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $53 |
| Incyte Corporation | 2 | $41 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $20 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $3 |
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.
- Otezla$124
How this compares
$1,914 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,875 dermatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Humira PenAdalimumab | 13 | $104,447 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 84 | $5,328 |
| Ketoconazole | 135 | $2,527 |
| Fluorouracil | 32 | $1,894 |
| Metronidazole | 30 | $1,475 |
| Imiquimod | 35 | $819 |
| Fluocinonide | 19 | $698 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 74 | $648 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 19 | $565 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 33 | $535 |
| Eszopiclone | 12 | $498 |
| Mupirocin | 37 | $205 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $159 |
| Minocycline Hcl | 12 | $130 |
| Hydrocortisone | 26 | $113 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Laguna Hills
- Vivian LaquerIrvine$20.9M
- Howard SofenLos Angeles$16.1M
- Raja SivamaniSacramento$11.8M
- Jennifer SoungSanta Ana$10.3M
- Stacy SmithEncinitas$7.9M
- Paul YamauchiSanta Monica$7.8M
- Navid EzraThousand Oaks$7.8M
- Paul WallaceBeverly Hills$7.1M
- April ArmstrongLos Angeles$6.2M
- David RayhanHuntington Beach$5.2M
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.