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

Parissa Vassef

Neurology Long Beach, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1356630370 CMS profile 1401311

701 E 28Th St Ste 319, Long Beach, CA 90806

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General payments

$27,207

1,400 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, Parissa Vassef of Long Beach, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $27,207 across 1,400 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 86th percentile of Neurology 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 $5,293 247
2024 General $5,142 234
2023 General $5,266 243
2022 General $4,042 220
2021 General $2,609 153
2020 General $2,232 132
2019 General $2,623 171

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Parissa Vassef
  • Neurology median
  • Middle half of Neurology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Parissa Vassef were reported at $5,293. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.

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Year Parissa Vassef Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $2,623 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $2,232 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $2,609 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $4,042 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $5,266 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $5,142 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $5,293 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $2,371 147 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $2,026 119 payments
  3. Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. $1,950 101 payments
  4. UCB, Inc. $1,810 64 payments
  5. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $1,691 96 payments
  6. Biogen, Inc. $1,462 78 payments
  7. US WorldMeds, LLC $1,299 83 payments
  8. EMD Serono, Inc. $1,024 50 payments
  9. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $842 43 payments
  10. Amgen Inc. $839 51 payments
  11. Other $11,892 568 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $26,718 1,364 payments
  2. Education $446 34 payments
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $43 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. INGREZZA $1,512 82 payments
  2. KESIMPTA Neurology $1,345 88 payments
  3. UBRELVY $1,139 67 payments
  4. Briviact $1,109 41 payments
  5. QULIPTA $929 54 payments
  6. ULTOMIRIS $875 29 payments
  7. KESIMPTA Neuroscience $791 47 payments
  8. Soliris $717 62 payments
  9. Hizentra $666 21 payments
  10. NUPLAZID $611 28 payments
  11. Other $19,507 1,022 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 · 69 drugs

Part D claims

3,602

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$1,106,838

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

36.9%

Median for Neurology: 25.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Kesimpta Pen Ofatumumab Brand 33 $345,817
Privigen Immun Glob G(Igg)/Pro/Iga 0-50 Brand 30 $263,762
Botox Onabotulinumtoxina Brand 53 $60,878
Nurtec Odt Rimegepant Sulfate Brand 38 $54,935
Rexulti Brexpiprazole Brand 37 $54,607
Ubrelvy Ubrogepant Brand 34 $39,509
Emgality Pen Galcanezumab-Gnlm Brand 48 $36,846
Aptiom Eslicarbazepine Acetate Brand 23 $29,778
Memantine Hcl Er Memantine Hcl Brand 224 $28,743
Serevent Diskus Salmeterol Xinafoate Brand 56 $27,133

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 69 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 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 13 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$77,089

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

235

Average age 73

Services billed

646

138 women, 97 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
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 48%
Alzheimer's or dementia 37%
Diabetes 36%
Depression 29%
Chronic kidney disease 27%
Ischemic heart disease 23%
Osteoporosis 17%

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 42 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
INGREZZA
$481 — —
KESIMPTA
$435 33 —
Rystiggo
$335 — —
ULTOMIRIS
$316 — —
Gocovri
$307 — —

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

1,400 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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