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

Soo Kang

Internal Medicine Buena Park, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1164577706 CMS profile 97718

6714 Beach Blvd, Buena Park, CA 90621

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General payments

$16,398

797 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, Soo Kang of Buena Park, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $16,398 across 797 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 97th percentile of Internal Medicine 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 $1,860 88
2024 General $2,302 106
2023 General $2,281 109
2022 General $2,280 117
2021 General $2,812 145
2020 General $1,491 79
2019 General $3,372 153

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Soo Kang
  • Internal Medicine median
  • Middle half of Internal Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Soo Kang were reported at $1,860. Among 52,115 Internal Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $156 and the middle half received between $47 and $551.

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Year Soo Kang Internal Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $3,372 $159 $48–$570 $163
2020 $1,491 $119 $33–$402 $114
2021 $2,812 $135 $37–$521 $132
2022 $2,280 $141 $42–$496 $149
2023 $2,281 $149 $45–$519 $160
2024 $2,302 $154 $47–$537 $164
2025 $1,860 $156 $47–$551 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Amgen Inc. $2,234 119 payments
  2. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $2,105 104 payments
  3. Novo Nordisk Inc $1,460 92 payments
  4. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $1,158 49 payments
  5. Amarin Pharma Inc. $780 17 payments
  6. Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc $744 35 payments
  7. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $646 30 payments
  8. AbbVie, Inc. $611 34 payments
  9. Gilead Sciences, Inc. $545 28 payments
  10. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $495 21 payments
  11. Other $5,621 268 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $16,369 791 payments
  2. Education $29 6 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. FARXIGA $1,523 73 payments
  2. Ozempic $1,235 83 payments
  3. EVENITY $1,208 54 payments
  4. RYBELSUS $1,061 72 payments
  5. Repatha $974 63 payments
  6. Prolia $889 48 payments
  7. TRELEGY ELLIPTA $752 32 payments
  8. Linzess Gi $709 33 payments
  9. AIMOVIG $682 47 payments
  10. LINZESS Gastroenterology $612 34 payments
  11. Other $11,992 575 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 · 286 drugs

Part D claims

49,695

Median for Internal Medicine: 777

Drug cost

$7,625,409

Median for Internal Medicine: $73,373

Branded share of claims

28.1%

Median for Internal Medicine: 19.3%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Creon Lipase/Protease/Amylase Brand 1,020 $1,334,826
Vascepa Icosapent Ethyl Brand 1,792 $765,258
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 591 $452,093
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 702 $424,381
Rybelsus Semaglutide Brand 303 $363,762
Zenpep Lipase/Protease/Amylase Brand 195 $307,511
Prolia Denosumab Brand 162 $270,184
Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate Brand 354 $267,248
Kerendia Finerenone Brand 348 $266,909
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 330 $264,929

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 286 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 104,182 Part D prescribers listed as Internal Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 20 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$90,246

Of which drugs: $17

Medicare patients

319

Average age 79

Services billed

1,473

221 women, 98 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%
Diabetes 45%
Arthritis 45%
Osteoporosis 39%
Chronic kidney disease 33%
Ischemic heart disease 18%
Cancer 18%
Alzheimer's or dementia 18%

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 30 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
FARXIGA
$232 591 —
GVOKE HYPOPEN
$225 19 —
IBSRELA
$196 — —
JARDIANCE
$165 330 —
LINZESS
$162 702 —

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

797 reported

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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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