Who Paid My Doc
Charles Eichler
Surgery San Francisco, CA Medical Doctor
NPI 1265498729 CMS profile 997988
400 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143
General payments
$309,624
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$22,092
Through program year 2025, Charles Eichler of San Francisco, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $309,624 across 468 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $22,092 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Surgery 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 | $36,802 | 34 | |
| 2024 | General | $38,611 | 47 | |
| 2023 | General | $64,769 | 81 | |
| 2022 | General | $43,587 | 69 | |
| 2021 | General | $19,163 | 52 | |
| 2020 | General | $40,192 | 55 | |
| 2019 | General | $66,500 | 130 |
Beside peers
- Charles Eichler
- Surgery median
- Middle half of Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Charles Eichler were reported at $36,802. Among 17,702 Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $280 and the middle half received between $91 and $1,259.
Show as a table
| Year | Charles Eichler | Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $66,500 | $253 | $82–$1,521 | $163 |
| 2020 | $40,192 | $131 | $40–$706 | $114 |
| 2021 | $19,163 | $168 | $50–$904 | $132 |
| 2022 | $43,587 | $224 | $76–$1,218 | $149 |
| 2023 | $64,769 | $253 | $82–$1,255 | $160 |
| 2024 | $38,611 | $279 | $90–$1,381 | $164 |
| 2025 | $36,802 | $280 | $91–$1,259 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 81 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$112,355
Medicare patients
568
Services billed
1,138
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 48% | |
| Arthritis | 46% | |
| Diabetes | 42% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 42% | |
| Heart failure | 33% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 29% | |
| Depression | 29% |
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.
Records
468 reportedEvery 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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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.