Who Paid My Doc
Joel Epstein
Dentist West Hollywood, CA Doctor of Dentistry
NPI 1083729131 CMS profile 536432
8700 Beverly Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90048
General payments
$3,442
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$7,731
Through program year 2024, Joel Epstein of West Hollywood, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,442 across 4 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $7,731 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 95th percentile of Dentist profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
3 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | General | $142 | 1 | |
| 2023 | General | $2,800 | 2 | |
| 2019 | General | $500 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Joel Epstein
- Dentist median
- Middle half of Dentist
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Joel Epstein were reported at $0. Among 32,838 Dentist profiles paid that year, the median was $70 and the middle half received between $27 and $192.
Show as a table
| Year | Joel Epstein | Dentist median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $500 | $62 | $24–$164 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $73 | $24–$150 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $72 | $24–$186 | $132 |
| 2022 | $0 | $73 | $26–$196 | $149 |
| 2023 | $2,800 | $75 | $28–$200 | $160 |
| 2024 | $142 | $73 | $27–$186 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $70 | $27–$192 | $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 · 22 drugsPart D claims
863
Drug cost
$53,770
Branded share of claims
10.3%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cevimeline Hcl | Generic | 160 | $26,807 | |
| Bethanechol Chloride | Generic | 106 | $6,062 | |
| Pimecrolimus | Generic | 33 | $5,213 | |
| Tretinoin | Generic | 39 | $2,766 | |
| Pentoxifylline | Generic | 84 | $2,175 | |
| Celecoxib | Generic | 17 | $1,996 | |
| Fluconazole | Generic | 45 | $1,363 | |
| Fluocinonide | Generic | 27 | $1,338 | |
| Clotrimazole | Generic | 21 | $1,105 | |
| Megestrol Acetate | Generic | 14 | $913 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 22 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 5,440 Part D prescribers listed as Oral Surgery (Dentist only); they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 14 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$19,261
Medicare patients
106
Services billed
189
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 47% | |
| Diabetes | 39% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 33% | |
| Cancer | 33% | |
| Osteoporosis | 33% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 30% | |
| 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
4 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.