Has Michael Bublik, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,673 in general payments to Michael Bublik, MD across 74 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Michael Bublik, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Michael Bublik, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Michael Bublik, MD

Facial Plastic Surgery · Glendale, CANPI 1679784664

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,714 of the $4,673 with a category attached, or 79.5%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 36.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,661 and has fallen 85.9% since, to $235 in 2025.

$4,673in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $63.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$2K
Medtronic$2K
Watermark Medical, Inc.$301
Aerin Medical Inc.$182
Intersect ENT, Inc.$177
Acclarent, Inc$174
plus $509 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$95921%
Food & beverage$3,71479%

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
Stryker	37	$1,725
Medtronic(2 entities)	7	$1,604
Watermark Medical, Inc.	1	$301
Aerin Medical Inc.	2	$182
Intersect ENT, Inc.	2	$177
Acclarent, Inc	3	$174
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	7	$141
Optinose US, Inc.	7	$120
Carestream Dental, LLC	2	$83
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$80
Merz North America, Inc.	2	$46
Jubilant Hollisterstier LLC	2	$38

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.

PROPEL$1,426
FIAGON NAVIGATION UNIT$205
SCOPIS ENT$200
Vivaer RF Stylus$167
SINUVA$150
ENTELLUS - MINIFESS SPHENOID SEEKER/FREER$143
LATERA$136
NUVENT$130

How this compares

$4,673 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 120 facial plastic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$1,415,385

Medicare patients

1,574

Services billed

21,649

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
Azelastine Hcl	1,015	$18,674
Fluticasone Propionate	1,781	$14,098
Ipratropium Bromide	511	$13,429
Mometasone Furoate	803	$12,533
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	60	$7,635
Epinephrine	16	$3,488
Azelastine-FluticasoneAzelastine/Fluticasone	28	$2,712
Ofloxacin	136	$2,478
Olopatadine Hcl	29	$2,353
Montelukast Sodium	369	$1,898
Diclofenac Sodium	36	$1,161
Omeprazole	377	$1,140
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	33	$1,017
Betamethasone Diprop AugmentedBetamethasone/Propylene Glyc	15	$1,014
Famotidine	399	$974

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Victor LacombeSanta Rosa$106K
Alen CohenWest Hills$72K
Bradley GreenePortola Valley$52K
Geoffrey TrenkleLos Angeles$44K
Elbert ChengSaratoga$38K
Benjamin TaleiBeverly Hills$31K

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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.

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