Barbara Hessel, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Forest Hills, NYNPI 1154380095
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 114 payments — averaging $19.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$239
- Pfizer$218
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$197
- Therapeuticsmd, Inc.$194
- Avion Pharmaceuticals$153
- Agile Therapeutics, Inc.$131
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,19997%
- Education$593%
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 | 12 | $239 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $218 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 7 | $197 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 9 | $194 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 16 | $153 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $131 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 5 | $115 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $91 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 5 | $87 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $76 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 3 | $71 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 3 | $67 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $61 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Biogen | 2 | $44 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Bayer | 2 | $41 |
| Dysis Medical, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $30 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Lupin Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $21 |
| Millicent US Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 1 | $17 |
How this compares
$2,258 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,673 obstetrics & gynecology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 43 | $3,151 |
| Ibandronate Sodium | 17 | $746 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 26 | $449 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 11 | $137 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 13 | $109 |
| Misoprostol | 21 | $82 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Forest Hills
- Marina FrimerBronx$8.5M
- Nicole NevadunskyBronx$2.5M
- Jin Hee KimNew York$1M
- Carolyn WesthoffNew York$935K
- Mary PolanNew York$862K
- Jessica AtrioBronx$752K
- Mark MartensAuburn$561K
- Steven GoldsteinNew York$557K
- Sharifa FaziliClarence$430K
- Dhruv AgneshwarJohnson City$412K
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.