Who Paid My Doc
Samantha Chai
Ophthalmology Los Angeles, CA Medical Doctor
NPI 1518129980 CMS profile 204057
4220 W 3Rd St, Suite 206, Los Angeles, CA 90020
General payments
$2,835
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2023, Samantha Chai of Los Angeles, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,835 across 98 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 67th percentile of Ophthalmology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
5 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | General | $417 | 12 | |
| 2022 | General | $562 | 24 | |
| 2021 | General | $377 | 22 | |
| 2020 | General | $615 | 14 | |
| 2019 | General | $863 | 26 |
Beside peers
- Samantha Chai
- Ophthalmology median
- Middle half of Ophthalmology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Samantha Chai were reported at $0. 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 | Samantha Chai | Ophthalmology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $863 | $258 | $104–$655 | $163 |
| 2020 | $615 | $126 | $45–$321 | $114 |
| 2021 | $377 | $205 | $76–$534 | $132 |
| 2022 | $562 | $266 | $100–$678 | $149 |
| 2023 | $417 | $308 | $117–$745 | $160 |
| 2024 | $0 | $340 | $127–$846 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $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.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 11 drugsPart D claims
364
Drug cost
$59,292
Branded share of claims
43.4%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lumigan Bimatoprost | Brand | 25 | $14,606 | |
| Rhopressa Netarsudil Mesylate | Brand | 31 | $14,508 | |
| Vyzulta Latanoprostene Bunod | Brand | 30 | $13,450 | |
| Combigan Brimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | Brand | 19 | $8,388 | |
| Brinzolamide | Generic | 13 | $2,377 | |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | Generic | 48 | $1,924 | |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-Timolol Brimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | Brand | 13 | $1,659 | |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | Generic | 27 | $739 | |
| Latanoprost | Generic | 85 | $716 | |
| Dorzolamide-Timolol Dorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | Brand | 40 | $523 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 11 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 18,260 Part D prescribers listed as Ophthalmology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Records
98 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.