Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

HERMAN A CARSTENS

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Obstetrics & Gynecology

NPI
1386611242
CMS profile
630395
Location
BLOOMINGTON, CA

General Payments · PY2018–2019

$589.06

  • Reported across 20 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2019

$172.21

9 records · 0 disputed

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

PY2019 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $130.83 7
Education $41.38 2

By paying entity

PY2019 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $41.38 2
TherapeuticsMD, Inc. $40.52 2
ABBVIE INC. $39.59 2
Roche Diagnostics Corporation $21.24 1
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $15.38 1
Lupin Inc. $14.10 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $416.85 11
PY2019 $172.21 9

Payment records · PY2019 (9)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2019 2018 Record-level detail is published for PY2019; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
AbbVie, Inc. $23.75 03/06/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 647734437 CMS
AbbVie, Inc. $15.84 06/05/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 647734439 CMS
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $23.00 01/23/2019 Education Undisputed 01/23/2026 698510057 CMS
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $18.38 05/22/2019 Education Undisputed 01/23/2026 698510059 CMS
Lupin Inc. $14.10 03/19/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 704114813 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $15.38 04/09/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695434953 CMS
Roche Diagnostics Corporation $21.24 08/30/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 671024409 CMS
TherapeuticsMD, Inc. $22.59 02/20/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 703045473 CMS
TherapeuticsMD, Inc. $17.93 07/25/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 703045475 CMS

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
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2019_P01232026_01102026.csv

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