Lauren Balbas, PA
Physician Assistant · Laguna Niguel, CANPI 1417352345
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 297 payments — averaging $27.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$1K
- Sanofi$1K
- Incyte Corporation$868
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$748
- Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc.$705
- Lilly USA, LLC$693
- plus $3K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$310%
- Travel & lodging$280%
- Food & beverage$8,16399%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 70 | $1,310 |
| Sanofi | 21 | $1,036 |
| Incyte Corporation | 28 | $868 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 45 | $748 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 12 | $705 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $693 |
| Pfizer | 24 | $500 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 22 | $350 |
| UCB, Inc. | 8 | $301 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 8 | $283 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $250 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $176 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $150 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $130 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $126 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 6 | $96 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $94 |
| Almirall LLC | 3 | $74 |
| Amgen | 3 | $64 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Organon | 1 | $21 |
| Strata Skin Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$8,222 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 10,423 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 130 | $4,615 |
| Tacrolimus | 56 | $4,522 |
| Fluorouracil | 41 | $2,601 |
| Mupirocin | 419 | $2,534 |
| Ketoconazole | 137 | $2,306 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 66 | $2,026 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 39 | $1,118 |
| Ciclopirox | 35 | $1,011 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 29 | $513 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 74 | $476 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 12 | $271 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Laguna Niguel
- John QuigleyDowney$2.9M
- 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
- Eric CheungLos Angeles$213K
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.