RxDoctor Payments Data

Somharn Saekow, MD

Dermatology · la Jolla, CANPI 1437269990

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,687in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 660 payments — averaging $19.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$2K
  • Sanofi$1K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Incyte Corporation$853
  • LEO Pharma Inc.$828
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$711
  • plus $5K from 25 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$12,09395%
  • Education$5945%

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

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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.

How this compares

$12,687 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,875 dermatology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,209,963
Medicare patients
1,797
Services billed
17,690

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Dupixent SyringeDupilumab60$226,821
OtezlaApremilast31$133,297
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept12$88,490
Dupixent PenDupilumab12$56,734
OpzeluraRuxolitinib Phosphate13$27,378
Clobetasol Propionate253$11,498
Fluocinonide197$6,664
Calcipotriene16$4,259
Ketoconazole223$3,747
Fluorouracil49$3,597
Metronidazole55$2,909
Tretinoin32$2,567
Triamcinolone Acetonide196$2,022
Hydrocortisone246$1,237
Mupirocin116$937

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AmgenOtezla$655$133,29731 claims
Incyte CorporationOpzelura$853$27,37813 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 1,875 dermatology providers in California.

Other dermatology in la Jolla

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