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

STEVEN A AKMAN

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Hematology & Oncology

NPI
1396729414
CMS profile
1199960
Location
CHARLESTON, SC

General Payments · PY2018–2020

$1,408.61

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

Latest program year · PY2020

$380.86

18 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

PY2020 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $247.87 14
Education $132.99 4

By paying entity

PY2020 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $916.99 4
PY2019 $110.76 1
PY2020 $380.86 18

Payment records · PY2020 (18)

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”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Astellas Pharma US Inc $16.82 01/07/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 718292863 CMS
Astellas Pharma US Inc $95.00 08/14/2020 Education Undisputed 01/23/2026 718292865 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $11.71 02/24/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 735994759 CMS
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $20.54 03/05/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 713633687 CMS
Celgene Corporation $21.85 02/03/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 727900579 CMS
Dova Pharmaceuticals $22.22 02/20/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 752351533 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $16.43 01/24/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 727900481 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $13.72 02/27/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 727900503 CMS
GENZYME CORPORATION $19.20 03/13/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 744168467 CMS
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc $17.27 01/08/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 741941339 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $19.10 01/16/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 728637053 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $14.24 02/15/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 728647329 CMS
PFIZER INC. $11.05 01/27/2020 Education Undisputed 01/23/2026 743146531 CMS
PFIZER INC. $13.90 01/27/2020 Education Undisputed 01/23/2026 743146961 CMS
PFIZER INC. $13.04 01/27/2020 Education Undisputed 01/23/2026 743717843 CMS
PFIZER INC. $18.39 03/11/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 743804343 CMS
Pharmacyclics LLC, An AbbVie Company $17.94 02/19/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 725661439 CMS
Seagen Inc. $18.44 02/07/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 732462009 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, 2020
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2020_P01232026_01102026.csv

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