Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

John Nienow

Infectious Disease San Francisco, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1861472649 CMS profile 39175

2186 Geary Blvd Ste 314, San Francisco, CA 94115

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General payments

$20,196

413 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, John Nienow of San Francisco, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $20,196 across 413 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 91st percentile of Infectious Disease 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 $1,869 103
2024 General $6,614 86
2023 General $1,224 32
2022 General $1,007 44
2021 General $482 25
2020 General $5,515 109
2019 General $3,485 14

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • John Nienow
  • Infectious Disease median
  • Middle half of Infectious Disease
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to John Nienow were reported at $1,869. Among 3,905 Infectious Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $188 and the middle half received between $57 and $766.

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Year John Nienow Infectious Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $3,485 $190 $60–$862 $163
2020 $5,515 $124 $32–$606 $114
2021 $482 $148 $38–$905 $132
2022 $1,007 $166 $50–$834 $149
2023 $1,224 $171 $57–$787 $160
2024 $6,614 $176 $52–$752 $164
2025 $1,869 $188 $57–$766 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Gilead Sciences, Inc. $11,298 150 payments
  2. ViiV Healthcare Company $5,951 138 payments
  3. EMD Serono, Inc. $1,611 96 payments
  4. Theratechnologies Inc. $932 7 payments
  5. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $185 12 payments
  6. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $178 8 payments
  7. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $27 1 payment
  8. Astellas Pharma US Inc $14 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $11,290 4 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $7,228 398 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $1,630 9 payments
  4. Education $48 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Biktarvy $5,431 19 payments
  2. DOVATO $1,034 73 payments
  3. EGRIFTA $932 7 payments
  4. CABENUVA Hiv $647 34 payments
  5. CABENUVA Hiv $434 22 payments
  6. Serostim Endocrinology $206 13 payments
  7. Serostim Endocrinology $180 16 payments
  8. PIFELTRO $178 8 payments
  9. DELSTRIGO $178 8 payments
  10. ISENTRESS $145 7 payments
  11. Other $790 39 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 · 181 drugs

Part D claims

10,161

Median for Internal Medicine: 777

Drug cost

$8,074,841

Median for Internal Medicine: $73,373

Branded share of claims

38.5%

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
Biktarvy Bictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala Brand 680 $3,026,909
Tivicay Dolutegravir Sodium Brand 215 $629,176
Descovy Emtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam Brand 224 $558,227
Serostim Somatropin Brand 29 $545,676
Juluca Dolutegravir/Rilpivirine Brand 121 $485,317
Triumeq Abacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi Brand 98 $426,609
Egrifta Sv Tesamorelin Acetate Brand 34 $307,433
Rukobia Fostemsavir Tromethamine Brand 21 $192,880
Odefsey Emtricitab/Rilpiviri/Tenof Ala Brand 50 $186,847
Spravato Esketamine Hcl Brand 41 $143,982

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 181 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 104,182 Part D prescribers listed as Internal Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 12 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$91,569

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

192

Average age 71

Services billed

1,051

21 women, 171 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
Diabetes 75%
High blood pressure 66%
Arthritis 33%
Ischemic heart disease 27%
Depression 21%
Chronic kidney disease 15%
Atrial fibrillation 14%
Cancer 14%

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.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 6 products · 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
Biktarvy
  • Gilead Sciences, Inc. $5,337
$5,337 680 —
CABENUVA
  • ViiV Healthcare Company $300
$300 11 —
DOVATO
  • ViiV Healthcare Company $97
$97 25 —
APRETUDE
  • ViiV Healthcare Company $21
$21 — —
EGRIFTA
  • Theratechnologies Inc. $11
$11 34 —

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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Records

413 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 2025

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

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