Who Paid My Doc
Benjamin Farahnik
Clinical & Laboratory Dermatological Immunology Long Beach, CA Medical Doctor
NPI 1699209254 CMS profile 5703522
3828 Schaufele Ave Ste 300, Long Beach, CA 90808
General payments
$198,454
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Benjamin Farahnik of Long Beach, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $198,454 across 852 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.
By program year
7 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $174,190 | 398 | |
| 2024 | General | $19,054 | 219 | |
| 2023 | General | $3,199 | 156 | |
| 2022 | General | $1,630 | 69 | |
| 2021 | General | $131 | 6 | |
| 2020 | General | $137 | 3 | |
| 2019 | General | $112 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Benjamin Farahnik
- Clinical & Laboratory Dermatological Immunology median
- Middle half of Clinical & Laboratory Dermatological Immunology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Benjamin Farahnik were reported at $174,190. Among 32 Clinical & Laboratory Dermatological Immunology profiles paid that year, the median was $1,254 and the middle half received between $445 and $4,549.
Show as a table
| Year | Benjamin Farahnik | Clinical & Laboratory Dermatological Immunology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $112 | $660 | $180–$2,230 | $163 |
| 2020 | $137 | $432 | $119–$1,020 | $114 |
| 2021 | $131 | $883 | $156–$1,571 | $132 |
| 2022 | $1,630 | $1,038 | $99–$1,992 | $149 |
| 2023 | $3,199 | $1,108 | $199–$2,848 | $160 |
| 2024 | $19,054 | $1,001 | $122–$1,882 | $164 |
| 2025 | $174,190 | $1,254 | $445–$4,549 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 17 drugsPart D claims
853
Drug cost
$80,936
Branded share of claims
8.4%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dupixent Pen Dupilumab | Brand | 17 | $61,708 | |
| Clobetasol Propionate | Generic | 121 | $5,763 | |
| Ketoconazole | Generic | 231 | $3,688 | |
| Metronidazole | Generic | 52 | $2,325 | |
| Tacrolimus | Generic | 16 | $1,188 | |
| Fluocinolone Acetonide Fluocinolone/Shower Cap | Brand | 11 | $1,040 | |
| Ciclopirox Ciclopirox Olamine | Brand | 44 | $907 | |
| Fluorouracil | Generic | 12 | $729 | |
| Fluocinonide | Generic | 15 | $572 | |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | Generic | 20 | $498 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 17 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 13,550 Part D prescribers listed as Dermatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 58 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$310,832
Medicare patients
814
Services billed
7,944
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 66% | |
| Arthritis | 42% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 25% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 22% | |
| Diabetes | 21% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 19% | |
| Cancer | 17% | |
| Depression | 14% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aminolevulinic acid hcl for topical administration, 20%, single unit dosage form (354 mg) J7308 | Office | 16 | 27 | $8,372 |
| Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 | Office | 16 | 39 | $30 |
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 34 products · payments 2024Two 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.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otezla |
|
$14,396 | — | — |
| DUPIXENT |
|
$827 | 17 | — |
| SKYRIZI |
|
$528 | — | — |
| SOTYKTU |
|
$413 | — | — |
| Bimzelx |
|
$354 | — | — |
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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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.