Who Paid My Doc
Joel Epstein
Pulmonary Disease Lakewood, CA Medical Doctor
NPI 1013037779 CMS profile 272638
3650 South St, Suite 308, Lakewood, CA 90712
General payments
$4,722
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2023, Joel Epstein of Lakewood, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,722 across 238 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 66th percentile of Pulmonary Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
5 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | General | $98 | 6 | |
| 2022 | General | $339 | 15 | |
| 2021 | General | $1,307 | 75 | |
| 2020 | General | $1,130 | 60 | |
| 2019 | General | $1,848 | 82 |
Beside peers
- Joel Epstein
- Pulmonary Disease median
- Middle half of Pulmonary Disease
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Joel Epstein were reported at $0. Among 8,914 Pulmonary Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $500 and the middle half received between $124 and $1,893.
Show as a table
| Year | Joel Epstein | Pulmonary Disease median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $1,848 | $377 | $109–$1,340 | $163 |
| 2020 | $1,130 | $230 | $56–$907 | $114 |
| 2021 | $1,307 | $269 | $68–$1,072 | $132 |
| 2022 | $339 | $390 | $100–$1,457 | $149 |
| 2023 | $98 | $419 | $114–$1,659 | $160 |
| 2024 | $0 | $476 | $123–$1,818 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $500 | $124–$1,893 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Records
238 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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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.