Stephen Kessler
Dermatology · Mesa, AZNPI 1326040965
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 114 payments — averaging $25.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$961
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$249
- LEO Pharma Inc.$247
- Novartis$216
- Amgen$167
- Genentech USA, Inc.$161
- plus $862 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,77897%
- Education$853%
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) | 27 | $961 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 7 | $249 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 14 | $247 |
| Novartis | 12 | $216 |
| Amgen | 8 | $167 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 8 | $161 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 4 | $128 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $115 |
| DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $97 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $94 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $90 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $84 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $42 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $39 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $36 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Incyte Corporation | 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
$2,863 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 305 dermatology providers in Arizona.
Other dermatology in Mesa
- Ronald GlickMesa$91K
- Zainab RashidMesa$14K
- Kenneth SteilPhoenix$15.6M
- Lindsay AckermanPhoenix$7.4M
- Sadra JazayeriPhoenix$5.2M
- Aaron MangoldScottsdale$4.9M
- James PehoushekGlendale$4.8M
- Carsten HamannPhoenix$1.7M
- Dathan HamannPhoenix$1.6M
- Anthony NuaraScottsdale$1.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.