Cathleen Finan
Physician Assistant · Buffalo, NYNPI 1366853681
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 52 payments — averaging $17.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$178
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$82
- Merck$76
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$58
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$52
- AstraZeneca$51
- plus $430 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$927100%
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(2 entities) | 8 | $178 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $82 |
| Merck | 4 | $76 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $52 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $51 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Amgen | 3 | $45 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $40 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $36 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $19 |
| Biogen | 1 | $18 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$927 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 11,358 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisone | 13 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Buffalo
- Scott SpringerBuffalo$95K
- Henry YuBronx$1M
- Michael AsbachAmherst$962K
- Janelle BunceJamestown$565K
- Kristyl Cuenca-SiskoNew York$478K
- Melissa WhiteGarden City$320K
- Lawrence HermanHolbrook$315K
- Kaitlyn NelsonBrooklyn$289K
- Sari KatzGarden City$271K
- Julius NwosuBronx$256K
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.