Who Paid My Doc
Michael Berlin
Ophthalmology West Hollywood, CA Medical Doctor
NPI 1528048584 CMS profile 1147071
8733 Beverly Blvd, Ste 301, West Hollywood, CA 90048
General payments
$5,661,177
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$7,725,134
Research they led as principal investigator
$6,267
Through program year 2025, Michael Berlin of West Hollywood, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $5,661,177 across 19 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $6,267 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $7,725,134 across 3 holdings.
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 Ophthalmology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
9 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $136 | 2 | |
| 2024 | General | $148 | 2 | |
| 2023 | General | $97 | 1 | |
| 2022 | General | $5,659,999 | 2 | |
| 2020 | General | $250 | 6 | |
| 2019 | General | $546 | 6 | |
| 2021 | Ownership | $5,618,742 | 1 | |
| 2020 | Ownership | $1,053,196 | 1 | |
| 2019 | Ownership | $1,053,196 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Michael Berlin
- Ophthalmology median
- Middle half of Ophthalmology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Michael Berlin were reported at $136. Among 13,034 Ophthalmology profiles paid that year, the median was $384 and the middle half received between $136 and $917.
Show as a table
| Year | Michael Berlin | Ophthalmology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $546 | $258 | $104–$655 | $163 |
| 2020 | $250 | $126 | $45–$321 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $205 | $76–$534 | $132 |
| 2022 | $5,659,999 | $266 | $100–$678 | $149 |
| 2023 | $97 | $308 | $117–$745 | $160 |
| 2024 | $148 | $340 | $127–$846 | $164 |
| 2025 | $136 | $384 | $136–$917 | $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
19 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.