Has Shannon Watkins received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,499 in general payments to Shannon Watkins across 119 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 Shannon Watkins 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 Shannon Watkins 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.

Shannon Watkins

Procedural Dermatology · San Francisco, CANPI 1144463779

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 119 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 38.9% of the total.

$3,499in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 119 payments — averaging $29.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$1K
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$548
Merz North America, Inc.$514
Lilly USA, LLC$199
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$185
Pfizer$137
plus $557 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,499100%

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)	53	$1,359
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	16	$548
Merz North America, Inc.	7	$514
Lilly USA, LLC	10	$199
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	9	$185
Pfizer	2	$137
Revance Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$137
EPI Health, LLC	6	$115
LEO Pharma Inc.	3	$59
Amgen	2	$47
UCB, Inc.	2	$40
Almirall LLC	2	$39
Johnson & Johnson	2	$37
Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$24
Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC	1	$21
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$20
Incyte Corporation	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.

How this compares

$3,499 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 108 procedural dermatology providers in California.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Minoxidil	12	$171

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other procedural dermatology in San Francisco

Sam Khalifianla Mesa$3.5M
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Mitchel GoldmanSan Diego$425K
Rebecca FitzgeraldLos Angeles$230K
Suzanne KilmerSacramento$220K
Zakia RahmanStanford$181K
Hrak JalianSanta Monica$160K
Amelia HausauerCampbell$117K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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