Angela Bessette, MD
Ophthalmology · Rochester, NYNPI 1912296088
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 27 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 28.8% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for ophthalmology clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $1,047.
Across 27 payments — averaging $27.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$210
- Genentech USA, Inc.$160
- ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$139
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$57
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$49
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$46
- plus $69 from 3 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $17,800 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Genentech, Inc.$18K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$729100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 9 | $210 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 7 | $160 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $139 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $57 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Alcon | 1 | $17 |
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.
How this compares
$729 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 102 | $5,135 |
| Bromfenac Sodium | 17 | $2,729 |
| Difluprednate | 11 | $1,313 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 44 | $597 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 38 | $431 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 42 | $265 |
| Timolol Maleate | 35 | $239 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 13 | $227 |
| Latanoprost | 26 | $150 |
| Prednisone | 11 | $74 |
| Tobramycin | 12 | $56 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in Rochester
- David KleinmanRochester$730K
- Scott MacraeRochester$74K
- David RubaltelliBrooklyn$8.9M
- Nathan RadcliffeNew York$2.1M
- Richard SpaideNew York$1.7M
- Eric DonnenfeldGarden City$1.4M
- Marguerite McDonaldOceanside$893K
- Joshua YoungNew York$814K
- Jonathan JonischGreat Neck$726K
- Joseph PanarelliNew York$541K
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.