Medical Doctor Program year 2024 Reported 2019–2024 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Celeste Chang

Nephrology San Francisco, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1245633825 CMS profile 5695881

728 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133

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General payments

$5,034

211 records reported · program years 2019–2024

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2024

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2024, Celeste Chang of San Francisco, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $5,034 across 211 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 80th percentile of Nephrology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2024 General $19 1
2023 General $1,215 58
2022 General $1,554 68
2021 General $1,088 50
2020 General $241 11
2019 General $916 23

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Celeste Chang
  • Nephrology median
  • Middle half of Nephrology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Celeste Chang were reported at $0. Among 8,186 Nephrology profiles paid that year, the median was $310 and the middle half received between $104 and $880.

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Year Celeste Chang Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $916 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $241 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $1,088 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $1,554 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $1,215 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $19 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $0 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $844 37 payments
  2. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $656 23 payments
  3. Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. $557 23 payments
  4. Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. $432 24 payments
  5. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $425 17 payments
  6. Relypsa, Inc. $376 19 payments
  7. Boston Scientific Corporation $257 2 payments
  8. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $231 10 payments
  9. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $226 9 payments
  10. OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $214 7 payments
  11. Other $814 40 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Food and Beverage $4,909 205 payments
  2. Education $125 6 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. NEXLETOL $557 23 payments
  2. Velphoro $432 24 payments
  3. BENLYSTA $425 17 payments
  4. LOKELMA $416 14 payments
  5. FARXIGA $378 20 payments
  6. JYNARQUE Nephrology $374 9 payments
  7. Veltassa $354 18 payments
  8. JYNARQUE Nephrology $299 15 payments
  9. ACTHAR $231 10 payments
  10. Vascepa $173 9 payments
  11. Other $1,509 53 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 · 1 drug

Part D claims

20

Median for Internal Medicine: 777

Drug cost

$1,735

Median for Internal Medicine: $73,373

Branded share of claims

100%

Median for Internal Medicine: 19.3%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Prosol Parenteral Amino Acid 20% No.1 Brand 20 $1,735

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 104,182 Part D prescribers listed as Internal Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Payments and prescribing

1 product · 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
GEMTESA
  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $19
$19 — —

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.

Records

211 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 2024

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

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