Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Armen Cherik

Neurology Glendale, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1225104318 CMS profile 146027

1215 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA 91204

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General payments

$27,000

1,262 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Armen Cherik of Glendale, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $27,000 across 1,262 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 86th percentile of Neurology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $4,425 170
2024 General $4,788 183
2023 General $3,651 165
2022 General $4,512 204
2021 General $4,404 230
2020 General $2,081 109
2019 General $3,138 201

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Armen Cherik
  • Neurology median
  • Middle half of Neurology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Armen Cherik were reported at $4,425. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.

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Year Armen Cherik Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $3,138 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $2,081 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $4,404 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $4,512 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $3,651 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $4,788 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $4,425 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $2,575 132 payments
  2. UCB, Inc. $2,498 110 payments
  3. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,265 70 payments
  4. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $1,224 45 payments
  5. Biogen, Inc. $1,222 86 payments
  6. SK Life Science, Inc. $986 57 payments
  7. ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc $908 49 payments
  8. Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC $803 37 payments
  9. Celgene Corporation $761 46 payments
  10. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $757 22 payments
  11. Other $14,003 608 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $26,562 1,227 payments
  2. Education $264 27 payments
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $173 8 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. UBRELVY $1,149 57 payments
  2. VRAYLAR $917 51 payments
  3. ULTOMIRIS $851 29 payments
  4. ZEPOSIA $818 49 payments
  5. Briviact $772 34 payments
  6. NOURIANZ $744 35 payments
  7. Zilbrysq $705 32 payments
  8. QULIPTA $640 28 payments
  9. RYTARY $631 31 payments
  10. VALTOCO $626 20 payments
  11. Other $19,049 917 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 105 drugs

Part D claims

5,627

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$2,504,331

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

26.1%

Median for Neurology: 25.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Gamunex-C Immune Globul G/Gly/Iga Avg 46 Brand 34 $646,377
Privigen Immun Glob G(Igg)/Pro/Iga 0-50 Brand 17 $367,659
Gammagard Liquid Immun Glob G(Igg)/Gly/Iga Ov50 Brand 13 $220,083
Rexulti Brexpiprazole Brand 111 $162,904
Betaseron Interferon Beta-1b Brand 13 $124,754
Gilenya Fingolimod Hcl Brand 11 $106,655
Kesimpta Pen Ofatumumab Brand 11 $93,924
Avonex Pen (4 Pack) Interferon Beta-1a Brand 12 $88,452
Copaxone Glatiramer Acetate Brand 15 $86,075
Gocovri Amantadine Hcl Brand 34 $72,991

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 105 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 25 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$265,703

Of which drugs: $20,107

Medicare patients

747

Average age 75

Services billed

6,581

420 women, 327 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Ischemic heart disease 60%
Depression 60%
Diabetes 59%
Alzheimer's or dementia 39%
Heart failure 33%
Osteoporosis 33%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, incobotulinumtoxin a, 1 unit J0588 Office 14 4,052 $16,617

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 49 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
ULTOMIRIS
$478 — —
Rystiggo
$353 — —
VRAYLAR
$272 — —
Austedo XR
$251 — —
VALTOCO
$222 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

1,262 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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