Pauline Funchain, MD
Medical Oncology · Palo Alto, CANPI 1730371832
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $22,971 of the $34,003 with a category attached, or 67.6%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Merck at 36.1% of the total.
Across 44 payments — averaging $772.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$12K
- Array Biopharma Inc$6K
- Sanofi$4K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$3K
- Grifols, S.A.$2K
- Immunocore Limited$2K
- plus $4K from 5 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $40,040 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.
- Pfizer$337K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$136K
- Taiho Oncology, Inc.$7K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$22,97168%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,94523%
- Travel & lodging$1,3074%
- Food & beverage$1,7805%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 12 | $12,281 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 3 | $5,711 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $3,946 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 13 | $2,734 |
| Grifols, S.A. | 3 | $2,453 |
| Immunocore Limited | 4 | $2,420 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $1,875 |
| Novartis | 4 | $1,738 |
| Hexal AG | 1 | $600 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $135 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $111 |
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
$34,003 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 379 medical oncology 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.
Other medical oncology in Palo Alto
- Ann LowePalo Alto$923K
- Millie DasPalo Alto$152K
- Milana DolezalPalo Alto$135K
- Curtis ChongPalo Alto$99K
- Stephen SherwinSan Francisco$6.9M
- Noam DrazinBeverly Hills$1.4M
- Farshid DayyaniOrange$1.2M
- April TeitelbaumSan Diego$1.1M
- Przemyslaw TwardowskiSanta Monica$995K
- Marin XavierSan Diego$919K
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.