Michael Cerni
General Practice · Laguna Niguel, CANPI 1154652659
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $14,470 of the $20,504 with a category attached, or 70.6%. AbbVie accounts for 98.0% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among general practice 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 319 payments — averaging $64.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$20K
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$343
- Apyx Medical Corporation$30
- Merz North America, Inc.$22
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$13
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,1436%
- Speaking & faculty fees$14,47071%
- Food & beverage$4,84724%
- Education$440%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 299 | $20,096 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 17 | $343 |
| Apyx Medical Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 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.
- BOTOX COSMETIC$261
How this compares
$20,504 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 12,963 general practice providers in California.
Other general practice in Laguna Niguel
- Nathan LiLancaster$5.2M
- Milton McCollSan Jose$4.9M
- Frederic MollRedwood City$2.5M
- Bradley ChingUpland$1.4M
- Eric BrassTorrance$755K
- Marc GeissbergerGreenbrae$583K
- Robert CampbellLong Beach$501K
- Varo BoyerNorth Hills$482K
- Michael MiyasakiSacramento$464K
- Apolinar MadrigalCeres$419K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.