Has Alexander Ovchinsky, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,450 in general payments to Alexander Ovchinsky, MD across 57 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Alexander Ovchinsky, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Alexander Ovchinsky, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Alexander Ovchinsky, MD

Otolaryngology · New York, NYNPI 1871554469

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,450in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $25.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Merz North America, Inc.$656
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$438
Optinose US, Inc.$247
Stryker$91
Merck$19

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,450100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Merz North America, Inc.	9	$656
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	37	$438
Optinose US, Inc.	7	$247
Stryker	3	$91
Merck	1	$19

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

XEOMIN$171
Xhance$120

How this compares

$1,450 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 701 otolaryngology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$429,864

Medicare patients

1,091

Services billed

3,528

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	200	$21,109
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole	73	$14,373
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	261	$11,958
Ipratropium Bromide	429	$10,402
Fluticasone Propionate	1,133	$7,733
RyaltrisOlopatadine Hcl/Mometasone	22	$5,195
Azelastine Hcl	176	$3,117
Sodium ChlorideSodium Chloride Irrig Solution	71	$2,712
Mupirocin	496	$2,510
Sucralfate	18	$2,456
Diclofenac Sodium	113	$2,228
Mometasone Furoate	174	$2,144
Clotrimazole	62	$1,727
Pilocarpine Hcl	33	$1,092
Esomeprazole Magnesium	11	$911

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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