Lawrence Cheung
Dermatology · San Francisco, CANPI 1225096357
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $66,045 of the $75,464 with a category attached, or 87.5%. Pfizer accounts for 71.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $40,343 and has fallen 88.7% since, to $4,555 in 2023. Among dermatology clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 107 payments — averaging $705.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$54K
- LEO Pharma Inc.$18K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- AbbVie$624
- Sanofi$48
- UCB, Inc.$29
- plus $91 from 5 others
Across 131 payments — averaging $5428.82 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AbbVie$280K
- Eli Lilly$216K
- LEO Pharma AS$128K
- Pfizer$57K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$19K
- Acrotech Biopharma Inc.$7K
- plus $5K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,7165%
- Speaking & faculty fees$66,04588%
- Travel & lodging$3,5135%
- Food & beverage$2,0913%
- Education$1000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 47 | $53,756 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 14 | $18,367 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $2,550 |
| AbbVie | 35 | $624 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $48 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Amgen | 1 | $25 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial 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
$75,464 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,875 dermatology providers in California.
Other dermatology in San Francisco
- Tina BhutaniSan Francisco$1.1M
- Sarina ElmariahSan Francisco$510K
- Timothy BergerSan Francisco$270K
- Marlys FassettSan Francisco$168K
- Caren CampbellSan Francisco$149K
- Kathleen WelshSan Francisco$149K
- Paul YamauchiSanta Monica$2.9M
- Jennifer SoungSanta Ana$2.8M
- Robert GreenbergLivermore$2.6M
- Neal BhatiaSan Diego$2.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.