Covered recipient · General Payments record
HOWARD KERSTEIN
General Payments · PY2018–2020
$41,451.24
- Reported across 304 records
- CMS publication 2026-01-23
Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.
How these totals are calculated
- The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
- General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
- Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
- Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.
By nature of payment
PY2020 · sorted by reported total
| Nature of payment | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|
| Consulting Fee | $1,890.00 | 3 |
| Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program | $1,637.50 | 3 |
| Food and Beverage | $312.19 | 22 |
By paying entity
PY2020 · sorted by reported total
| Paying entity | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk AS | $1,989.00 | 12 |
| Acerta Pharma LLC | $1,190.76 | 5 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | $500.89 | 2 |
| MannKind Corporation | $37.01 | 2 |
| Horizon Pharma plc | $26.28 | 1 |
| Abbott Laboratories | $19.60 | 1 |
| ABBVIE INC. | $18.93 | 1 |
| Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation | $16.23 | 1 |
| Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | $15.67 | 1 |
| DEXCOM, INC. | $13.54 | 1 |
| ARBOR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. | $11.78 | 1 |
By program year
All program years on this page · sorted by year
Payment records · PY2020 (28)
Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS
Program year 2020 20182019
Record-level detail is published for PY2020; earlier years are summarised in
“By program year”.
Source & provenance
- Dataset
- CMS Open Payments — General Payments
- Publisher of source data
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- CMS publication date
- 2026-01-23
- Program years on this page
- 2018, 2019, 2020
- Source files
- Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020
- Generated from
- OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2020_P01232026_01102026.csv
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