Has Sea Kim, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,782 in general payments to Sea Kim, MD across 57 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 Sea Kim, 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 Sea Kim, 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.

Sea Kim, MD

Hospice and Palliative Medicine · Alexandria, VANPI 1720295637

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 57 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 31.1% of the total. Among hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$1,782in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $31.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$554
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$509
AstraZeneca$234
Dexcom, Inc.$134
Merz North America, Inc.$83
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$79
plus $189 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,782100%

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
AbbVie(2 entities)	21	$554
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	20	$509
AstraZeneca	2	$234
Dexcom, Inc.	1	$134
Merz North America, Inc.	2	$83
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	4	$79
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$65
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	2	$57
Metacel Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$48
Johnson & Johnson	1	$18

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.

DEXCOM G7 GSS (161)$134

How this compares

$1,782 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 45 hospice and palliative medicine providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$244,729

Medicare patients

488

Services billed

6,657

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
EliquisApixaban	55	$33,376
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	30	$1,563
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	37	$821
Midodrine Hcl	17	$643
Valsartan	20	$513
Atorvastatin Calcium	63	$501
Gabapentin	45	$422
Metoprolol Succinate	25	$422
Baclofen	13	$336
Rosuvastatin Calcium	18	$285
Morphine Sulfate	16	$284
Tamsulosin Hcl	28	$238
Ezetimibe	12	$199
Levothyroxine Sodium	19	$189
Losartan Potassium	27	$172

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hospice and palliative medicine in Alexandria

Stephanie GiorlandoAlexandria$125
Ali GanjeiAlexandria$89
Rohan OberoiAlexandria$32
Gregory AloufSalem$13K
Purvi ShahRichmond$9K
Sarah WestNewport News$3K
Jessica HeintzFairfax$2K
Muhammad SiddiquiManassas$948
Haley VestCharlottesville$534
Cara JenningsRichmond$458

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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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