Who Paid My Doc
Douglas Sears
Encino, CA Medical Doctor
NPI 1720062664 CMS profile 350844
16055 Ventura Blvd, Suite 670, Encino, CA 91436
General payments
$19,711
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Douglas Sears of Encino, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $19,711 across 351 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 | $2,374 | 63 | |
| 2024 | General | $6,631 | 55 | |
| 2023 | General | $1,631 | 58 | |
| 2022 | General | $2,730 | 54 | |
| 2021 | General | $4,829 | 44 | |
| 2020 | General | $347 | 18 | |
| 2019 | General | $1,169 | 59 |
Beside peers
- Douglas Sears
- California median
- Middle half of California
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Douglas Sears were reported at $2,374. Among 98,626 California profiles paid that year, the median was $172 and the middle half received between $54 and $610.
Show as a table
| Year | Douglas Sears | California median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $1,169 | $161 | $50–$652 | $163 |
| 2020 | $347 | $114 | $34–$392 | $114 |
| 2021 | $4,829 | $137 | $41–$509 | $132 |
| 2022 | $2,730 | $152 | $48–$573 | $149 |
| 2023 | $1,631 | $162 | $50–$581 | $160 |
| 2024 | $6,631 | $162 | $52–$583 | $164 |
| 2025 | $2,374 | $172 | $54–$610 | $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 · 39 drugsPart D claims
1,174
Drug cost
$237,821
Branded share of claims
34%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zyprexa Zydis Olanzapine | Brand | 13 | $58,521 | |
| Abilify Mycite Aripiprazole | Brand | 25 | $42,362 | |
| Trintellix Vortioxetine Hydrobromide | Brand | 33 | $33,015 | |
| Vyvanse Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate | Brand | 29 | $17,496 | |
| Belsomra Suvorexant | Brand | 28 | $15,474 | |
| Dyanavel Xr Amphetamine | Brand | 11 | $11,637 | |
| Nurtec Odt Rimegepant Sulfate | Brand | 11 | $10,788 | |
| Lurasidone Hcl | Generic | 13 | $8,451 | |
| Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate | Generic | 34 | $8,405 | |
| Atomoxetine Hcl | Generic | 29 | $5,122 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 39 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 1,049 Part D prescribers listed as Specialist; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Payments and prescribing
First 5 of 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APLENZIN |
|
$4,903 | — | — |
| VRAYLAR |
|
$506 | — | — |
| REXULTI |
|
$220 | — | — |
| Auvelity |
|
$125 | — | — |
| COBENFY |
|
$122 | — | — |
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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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.