Who Paid My Doc
Molly Shields
Dermatology Santa Cruz, CA Medical Doctor
NPI 1952302556 CMS profile 269346
1661 Soquel Dr Ste E, Santa Cruz, CA 95065
General payments
$52
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2023, Molly Shields of Santa Cruz, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $52 across 2 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 5th percentile of Dermatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
2 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | General | $33 | 1 | |
| 2020 | General | $19 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Molly Shields
- Dermatology median
- Middle half of Dermatology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Molly Shields were reported at $0. Among 10,363 Dermatology profiles paid that year, the median was $788 and the middle half received between $207 and $1,974.
Show as a table
| Year | Molly Shields | Dermatology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | $454 | $129–$1,240 | $163 |
| 2020 | $19 | $235 | $81–$756 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $377 | $108–$1,108 | $132 |
| 2022 | $0 | $514 | $143–$1,391 | $149 |
| 2023 | $33 | $607 | $159–$1,674 | $160 |
| 2024 | $0 | $751 | $204–$1,903 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $788 | $207–$1,974 | $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 · 23 drugsPart D claims
1,169
Drug cost
$162,448
Branded share of claims
7.9%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens) Secukinumab | Brand | 12 | $89,148 | |
| Dupixent Syringe Dupilumab | Brand | 14 | $48,879 | |
| Metronidazole | Generic | 78 | $3,285 | |
| Ketoconazole | Generic | 209 | $2,978 | |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | Generic | 71 | $2,862 | |
| Clobetasol Propionate | Generic | 52 | $2,773 | |
| Fluorouracil | Generic | 42 | $2,705 | |
| Fluocinonide | Generic | 54 | $1,811 | |
| Tacrolimus | Generic | 16 | $1,218 | |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | Generic | 217 | $1,203 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 23 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 13,550 Part D prescribers listed as Dermatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 79 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$466,538
Medicare patients
1,676
Services billed
10,458
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 50% | |
| Arthritis | 40% | |
| Osteoporosis | 21% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 13% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 12% | |
| Cancer | 12% | |
| Depression | 12% | |
| Diabetes | 11% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 | Office | 50 | 123 | $87 |
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
2 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.
Other Dermatology in California
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Dermatology in California
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Everyone recorded under this specialty, nationwide.
Doctors in California
Every practitioner in the state with a reported payment.
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.