Samuel Berkman
Internal Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1730114752
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $114,005 of the $151,242 with a category attached, or 75.4%. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 82.8% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $68,010 and has fallen 87.0% since, to $8,847 in 2024. Among internal medicine 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 181 payments — averaging $835.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$125K
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$9K
- AstraZeneca$8K
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$8K
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$805
- Vertex$517
- plus $284 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,7846%
- Speaking & faculty fees$114,00575%
- Travel & lodging$23,29115%
- Food & beverage$5,1633%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 126 | $125,154 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 12 | $8,734 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 8 | $8,201 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 11 | $7,547 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 9 | $805 |
| Vertex | 1 | $517 |
| Amgen | 6 | $136 |
| GSK | 2 | $48 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $30 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $23 |
| Gilead | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
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
$151,242 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Los Angeles
- William HardyLos Angeles$704K
- Soha DolatabadiLos Angeles$458K
- Matthew HerrmannLos Angeles$384K
- Koppany VisnyeiLos Angeles$287K
- Jaime BetancourtLos Angeles$286K
- William KingLos Angeles$227K
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Tung NgoNewport Beach$4.9M
- Christian EversullStanford$2.9M
- Christian SandrockSacramento$2.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.