Paul Korc, MD
Internal Medicine · Newport Beach, CANPI 1922243161
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 151 payments — averaging $158.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Boston Scientific$6K
- Conmed Corporation$3K
- Covidien LP$3K
- Cook Medical LLC$1K
- Medtronic$942
- plus $4K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,90017%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,72538%
- Travel & lodging$1,3696%
- Food & beverage$9,10239%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 9 | $6,274 |
| Boston Scientific | 48 | $5,745 |
| Conmed Corporation | 19 | $3,025 |
| Covidien LP | 6 | $2,993 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 21 | $1,287 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $942 |
| Steris Corporation | 6 | $671 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 2 | $504 |
| Creo Medical Inc. | 1 | $458 |
| Lumendi LLC | 3 | $254 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 2 | $247 |
| Omega Medical Imaging, LLC | 2 | $236 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 9 | $234 |
| Medrobotics Inc. | 1 | $197 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 2 | $165 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $162 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $120 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $116 |
| Gilead | 1 | $83 |
| Amgen | 4 | $71 |
| Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 2 | $30 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $20 |
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.
- DA VINCI SP$4,200
- RESOLUTION CLIP$2,876
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,003
- GORE VIABIL$1,500
- CONMED BILIARY$608
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$571
- TRUFREEZE$562
- FUJIFILM$504
- Creo Medical$458
- CONMED GENERATORS$400
- ECHOTIP INSIGHT$393
- GENERAL - BILIARY DEVICES$242
- AXIOS$236
- EchoTip$221
- Resolution 360 ULTRA Clip$159
- Erbe Hybrid Knife$135
- CONMED HEMOSTASIS$127
- Bravo$124
- FUSION$121
- ZEPOSIA$120
How this compares
$23,895 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase | 11 | $18,355 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieCreon | $162 | $18,35511 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Newport Beach
- Ryan KleinNewport Beach$5M
- Tung NgoNewport Beach$4.9M
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Joel NeutelTustin$34.9M
- Donald BrandonSan Diego$34M
- William TownerLos Angeles$27.4M
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
- Masoud AzizadNorthridge$21.1M
- Helen StaceyWalnut Creek$20.4M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$15.1M
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.