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

KENT N GERSHENGORN

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease

NPI
1811987621
CMS profile
218069
Location
LARKSPUR, CA

General Payments · PY2018–2019

$957.14

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

Latest program year · PY2019

$645.91

13 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 $645.91 13

By paying entity

PY2019 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $311.23 10
PY2019 $645.91 13

Payment records · PY2019 (13)

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
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $100.86 03/05/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 659744129 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $49.38 04/17/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662789875 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $18.36 05/07/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662789862 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $72.23 05/30/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662789881 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $2.09 09/12/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 709057969 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $18.40 09/13/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662789869 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $28.36 12/01/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 700760795 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $3.13 12/02/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 700760797 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $122.30 12/03/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 700760749 CMS
HeartFlow, Inc. $166.67 09/24/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 708339307 CMS
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $20.91 01/18/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 630269645 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $19.51 02/20/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 659639263 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $23.71 09/25/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 659639265 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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