Has Salma Simjee, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,060 in general payments to Salma Simjee, MD across 24 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 Salma Simjee, 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 Salma Simjee, 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.

Salma Simjee, MD

Dermatology · Fresno, CANPI 1497730527

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,060in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $44.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$197
Pfizer$182
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$169
Amgen$103
Boehringer Ingelheim$91
Novartis$67
plus $252 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,060100%

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
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	4	$197
Pfizer	3	$182
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	3	$169
Amgen	2	$103
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$91
Novartis	1	$67
Incyte Corporation	2	$62
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$53
LEO Pharma Inc.	1	$52
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	2	$50
DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$19
Biofrontera Inc.	2	$16

How this compares

$1,060 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,875 dermatology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$762,686

Medicare patients

1,162

Services billed

11,541

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
Ketoconazole	223	$4,323
Metronidazole	70	$3,223
Clobetasol Propionate	52	$2,159
Fluorouracil	23	$1,980
Triamcinolone Acetonide	186	$870
Doxycycline Hyclate	61	$598
Betamethasone Valerate	21	$456
Mupirocin	62	$403
Clindamycin Phosphate	15	$365
Fluocinonide	11	$254
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	26	$193
Cephalexin	46	$191
Ciclopirox	15	$184
Prednisone	18	$73

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other dermatology in Fresno

John BoswellFresno$845K
Vivian LaquerIrvine$20.9M
Howard SofenLos Angeles$16.1M
Raja SivamaniSacramento$11.8M
Jennifer SoungSanta Ana$10.3M
Stacy SmithEncinitas$7.9M
Paul YamauchiSanta Monica$7.8M
Navid EzraThousand Oaks$7.8M
Paul WallaceBeverly Hills$7.1M
April ArmstrongLos Angeles$6.2M

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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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