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Miguel Canales, MD

Dermatology · Palo Alto

NPI 1053776740

Medicare standing
1 flag on the record
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Plans that list them
Not verified
Not the same as out of network.
Office
1

On the public record

  • Medicare does not list them as allowed to order and refer

Offices

1 location

Plan participation

Not verified

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California Medical Board record

Licence A66674 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1998 · expires 2028-10-31 · Harvard Medical School.

No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.

Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid

$3,768

Pharmacies billed $3,768 in 2024.

This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.

201 generic and 0 brand-name prescriptions · $3,768 in drug cost.

Part D prescriptions only. The opioid rate is opioid prescriptions as a share of all this clinician's Part D prescriptions; surgeons and pain specialists run higher than others, so it is shown against the same specialty.

Largest Part D drug costs
Minoxidil47$2,047$17
Clobetasol Propionate12$854$43
Finasteride11$344$11

Year by year

Part D prescribing by year
202420153None0%$3,768
202316950None0%$3,083
202215636None0%$2,479
202112431None0%$2,257
202018863NoneNone$6,963
201910425NoneNone$2,297
20187618NoneNone$5,229
201729NoneNoneNone$2,338
20163313NoneNone$3,567

Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.

See the drugs prescribed each year

2023: 2 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2023
Minoxidil91$1,546$17
Finasteride35$564$16

2022: 2 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2022
Minoxidil72$1,181$16
Finasteride35$417$12

2021: 2 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2021
Minoxidil69$1,057$15
Finasteride23$322$14

2020: 2 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2020
Minoxidil58$863$15
Finasteride17$254$15

2019: 3 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2019
Clobetasol Propionate14$923$66
Minoxidil41$524$13
Finasteride16$195$12

2018: 3 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2018
Clobetasol Propionate14$1,257$90
Finasteride22$314$14
Minoxidil17$234$14

Money from drug and device companies

$156 in 2025

Industry payments by year
202522None$156
202415None$315
202335None$90
202246$1,600$1,922
2021316$3,200$4,915
202037None$593
201913None$185

Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

Payments by company
AbbvieBotox$140
1 payment
  • Meals for Botox · 2025-03-06 · $140
Revance TherapeuticsDaxi$16
1 payment
  • Meals for Daxi · 2025-08-07 · $16
See all 2 published payments
Every published payment
Revance TherapeuticsMeals · 2025-08-07Daxi$16
AbbvieMeals · 2025-03-06Botox$140
See earlier years (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)

2024: $315

Payments by company in 2024
AbbvieBotox$315
5 payments
  • Meals · 2024-09-17 · $65
  • Meals for Botox · 2024-09-17 · $149
  • Meals · 2024-09-17 · $55
  • Meals · 2024-09-17 · $21
  • Meals · 2024-06-22 · $25

2023: $90

Payments by company in 2023
AbbVieBotox$60
3 payments
  • Meals · 2023-11-15 · $21
  • Meals for Botox · 2023-09-06 · $20
  • Meals for Botox · 2023-09-06 · $20
AmgenOtezla$16
1 payment
  • Meals for Otezla · 2023-11-13 · $16
Merz North AmericaNone$14
1 payment
  • Meals · 2023-01-31 · $14

2022: $1,922

Payments by company in 2022
AcelRx PharmaceuticalsDsuvia$1,643
3 payments
  • Meals for Dsuvia · 2022-08-15 · $23
  • Meals for Dsuvia · 2022-04-01 · $21
  • Honoraria for Dsuvia · 2022-03-24 · $1,600
AllerganKybella$132
1 payment
  • Meals for Kybella · 2022-07-12 · $132
Merz North AmericaNone$121
1 payment
  • Meals · 2022-04-29 · $121
Galderma Laboratories L.P.None$25
1 payment
  • Meals · 2022-09-20 · $25

2021: $4,915

Payments by company in 2021
AcelRx PharmaceuticalsDsuvia$3,247
4 payments
  • Honoraria for Dsuvia · 2021-12-08 · $1,600
  • Meals for Dsuvia · 2021-11-11 · $27
  • Honoraria for Dsuvia · 2021-11-11 · $1,600
  • Meals for Dsuvia · 2021-05-11 · $21
Merz North AmericaNone$1,620
10 payments
  • Meals · 2021-12-15 · $332
  • Meals · 2021-10-08 · $101
  • Meals · 2021-10-06 · $46
  • Meals · 2021-07-14 · $219
  • Meals · 2021-05-12 · $17
  • Meals · 2021-03-29 · $287
  • Meals · 2021-03-04 · $19
  • Meals · 2021-03-01 · $241
  • Meals · 2021-02-17 · $33
  • Meals · 2021-02-17 · $325
Galderma Laboratories L.P.None$47
2 payments
  • Meals · 2021-03-30 · $23
  • Meals · 2021-02-16 · $24

2020: $593

Payments by company in 2020
Merz North AmericaXeomin$550
4 payments
  • Meals for Xeomin · 2020-11-16 · $134
  • Meals for Xeomin · 2020-11-04 · $28
  • Meals for Xeomin · 2020-10-21 · $368
  • Meals for Xeomin · 2020-02-25 · $20
AcelRx PharmaceuticalsDsuvia$28
2 payments
  • Meals for Dsuvia · 2020-11-03 · $16
  • Meals for Dsuvia · 2020-04-01 · $13
Galderma Laboratories L.P.None$14
1 payment
  • Meals · 2020-08-11 · $14

2019: $185

Payments by company in 2019
Merz North AmericaXeomin$185
3 payments
  • Meals for Xeomin · 2019-12-16 · $27
  • Meals for Xeomin · 2019-10-21 · $148
  • Meals for Xeomin · 2019-07-25 · $10

Professional record

NPI
1053776740
Licence
CA A66674California A66674: Current · expires 2028-10-31
More record details
Sole proprietor
No
Taxonomy
Federal specialty code 207N00000X (207N00000X)
Mailing address
900 Welch Rd Ste 300, Palo Alto, CA, 94304
NPI first listed
2015-12-22
NPI last updated
2015-12-22

This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.