Sam Pourbabak, MD

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

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.

• Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian Hospital · Newport Beach, CA
• Memorialcare Saddleback Medical Center Hospital · Laguna Hills, CA · listed as Saddleback Memorial Medical Center

Colleagues at Scke Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 20 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Rahil Abdemannan Bandukwala, DO Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician · Encinitas, CA
• Dr. Brian Escala Chavez, MD Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician · Lake Forest, CA
• Connie Chu, FNP-BC Family Nurse Practitioner · Laguna Hills, CA
• Dr. Nazee Farsi, MD Rheumatology Physician · Laguna Woods, CA
• Dr. Monica M. Harms, MD Adult Medicine Physician · Laguna Hills, CA
• Stephen John Ierardi, MD Sports Medicine (Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine) Physician · Laguna Hills, CA
• Joji James, MD Nephrology Physician · Colton, CA
• Jill Jones, PA-C Physician Assistant · Laguna Niguel, CA
• Yaseen Kady, PA-C Internal Medicine Physician · Laguna Hills, CA
• Dr. Priyanka Bhat Krishnan, MD Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician · Laguna Hills, CA
• Dr. Lynn Elizabeth Napoli, MD General Practice Physician · Mission Viejo, CA
• Kameko Oshiro, PA Physician Assistant · Laguna Hills, CA

Other providers in Lake Forest

• Dr. Brian Escala Chavez, MD

  Individual Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician · NPI 1215974969

  23331 El Toro Rd Ste 102, Lake Forest, CA 92630-4891 · (949) 916-9100

• Coastline Endocrinology Associates, PC

  Organization Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician · NPI 1750264685

  25381 Commercentre Dr, Lake Forest, CA 92630-8860 · (714) 492-7128