Efe Ghanney Simons

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Adventist Health Delano Hospital · Delano, CA
• Kern Medical Center Hospital · Bakersfield, CA

Colleagues at Kern County Hospital Authority

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 263 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Pernian Abadi Primary Care Nurse Practitioner · Bakersfield, CA
• Abbas Syed Ali, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Clermont, FL
• Amanpreet Kaur Bath, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Valencia, CA
• Beverly Castleman, RD Registered Dietitian · Bakersfield, CA
• Dr. Brett Daniel Cowan, MD Emergency Medicine Physician · Bakersfield, CA
• Joshua Crosby, MD Surgery Physician · Austin, TX
• Igor Garcia-Pacheco, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Bakersfield, CA
• Rizal Lim, MD Plastic Surgery Physician · Augusta, GA
• MS. Maria Gabriela Morales Chavarria Case Manager/Care Coordinator · Bakersfield, CA
• Dr. Tarun Rustagi, MD Internal Medicine Physician · San Francisco, CA
• Dr. Obinna N Ugochukwu, MD Surgery Physician · Pensacola, FL
• Peter David Weiss, MD, FAOG Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Beverly Hills, CA