Who Paid My Doc
Morton Kern
Cardiovascular Disease Orange, CA Medical Doctor
NPI 1770587131 CMS profile 125504
Univ Calif Irvine Cardiology Bldg 53, Rt 81, Rm 100, 101 The City Drive, Orange, CA 92868
General payments
$314,125
Research payments
$750
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Morton Kern of Orange, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $314,125 across 270 general payments and $750 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 98th percentile of Cardiovascular Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
8 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $37,829 | 55 | |
| 2024 | General | $36,987 | 28 | |
| 2024 | Research | $750 | 1 | |
| 2023 | General | $67,624 | 49 | |
| 2022 | General | $48,454 | 40 | |
| 2021 | General | $23,548 | 25 | |
| 2020 | General | $34,337 | 24 | |
| 2019 | General | $65,345 | 49 |
Beside peers
- Morton Kern
- Cardiovascular Disease median
- Middle half of Cardiovascular Disease
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Morton Kern were reported at $37,829. Among 16,617 Cardiovascular Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $432 and the middle half received between $132 and $1,252.
Show as a table
| Year | Morton Kern | Cardiovascular Disease median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $65,345 | $450 | $127–$1,392 | $163 |
| 2020 | $34,337 | $242 | $77–$751 | $114 |
| 2021 | $23,548 | $335 | $101–$1,037 | $132 |
| 2022 | $48,454 | $395 | $121–$1,211 | $149 |
| 2023 | $67,624 | $443 | $136–$1,283 | $160 |
| 2024 | $36,987 | $450 | $136–$1,323 | $164 |
| 2025 | $37,829 | $432 | $132–$1,252 | $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
271 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.