Valerie Hanft
Dermatology · Media, PANPI 1528030392
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,691 of the $2,140 with a category attached, or 79.0%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 29.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $868 and has fallen 94.9% since, to $44 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for dermatology clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $1,724.
Across 104 payments — averaging $20.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$624
- AbbVie$403
- Sanofi$369
- LEO Pharma Inc.$181
- VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc.$123
- UCB, Inc.$78
- plus $362 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$35016%
- Food & beverage$1,69179%
- Education$995%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 44 | $624 |
| AbbVie | 20 | $403 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $369 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 8 | $181 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $123 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $78 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 2 | $70 |
| Aclaris Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Novartis | 1 | $14 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Medimetriks Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$2,140 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 626 dermatology providers in Pennsylvania.
Other dermatology in Media
- Scott GottliebExton$2.1M
- Douglas KressWexford$2M
- Stephen HessPhiladelphia$1.7M
- Adel HaqueYardley$1M
- Joel GelfandPhiladelphia$649K
- Neil NirenPittsburgh$574K
- Victoria WerthPhiladelphia$547K
- Mark SeralyMc Murray$545K
- Laura FerrisPittsburgh$502K
- Oleg AkilovPittsburgh$409K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.