Samuel Ellison, MD
Dermatology · San Francisco, CANPI 1336228436
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 490 payments — averaging $26.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$2K
- AbbVie$2K
- LEO Pharma Inc.$1K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$1K
- UCB, Inc.$980
- Sanofi$775
- plus $5K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$12,80899%
- Education$1031%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 64 | $2,181 |
| AbbVie | 64 | $1,781 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 100 | $1,389 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 21 | $1,002 |
| UCB, Inc. | 32 | $980 |
| Sanofi | 24 | $775 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 32 | $732 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 27 | $696 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 17 | $540 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 14 | $393 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 19 | $386 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $242 |
| Amgen | 10 | $242 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 8 | $227 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 6 | $214 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 4 | $209 |
| Novartis | 7 | $173 |
| Sandoz | 10 | $171 |
| Incyte Corporation | 5 | $120 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 5 | $114 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $111 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $73 |
| Almirall LLC | 3 | $70 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $43 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $22 |
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
$12,911 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,875 dermatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fluocinonide | 74 | $3,728 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 56 | $2,751 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 79 | $1,053 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 28 | $1,045 |
| Ketoconazole | 78 | $880 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 27 | $563 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 22 | $400 |
| Mupirocin | 43 | $272 |
| Mometasone Furoate | 15 | $244 |
| Hydrocortisone | 30 | $167 |
| Fluconazole | 13 | $73 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in San Francisco
- Wilson LiaoSan Francisco$3.6M
- Tina BhutaniSan Francisco$2.7M
- Raymond ChoSan Francisco$1.3M
- Michael RosenblumSan Francisco$1.3M
- 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
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.