Has Charles Ascher-Walsh, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $42,593 in general payments to Charles Ascher-Walsh, MD across 39 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 Charles Ascher-Walsh, 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 Charles Ascher-Walsh, 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.

Charles Ascher-Walsh, MD

Gynecology · New York, NYNPI 1780626317

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $32,948 of the $42,593 with a category attached, or 77.4%. Gynesonics, Inc. accounts for 61.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among gynecology clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$42,593in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $1092.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Gynesonics, Inc.$26K
Provepharm Inc.$9K
Caldera Medical, Inc$7K
Femselect Inc.$464
Coloplast$144
Medtronic$51
plus $135 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$32,94877%
Travel & lodging$7,11617%
Food & beverage$2,4796%
Gifts$500%

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
Gynesonics, Inc.	20	$26,102
Provepharm Inc.	3	$8,767
Caldera Medical, Inc	5	$6,929
Femselect Inc.	2	$464
Coloplast	2	$144
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$51
AbbVie	2	$41
Boston Scientific	1	$41
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$34
Urocure LLC	1	$20

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.

SONATA SONOGRAPHY-GUIDED TRANSCERVICAL FIBROID ABLATION SYSTEM$25,970
BLUDIGO$8,767
Desara$6,818
EnPlace$464

How this compares

$42,593 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 240 gynecology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$141,507

Medicare patients

231

Services billed

4,286

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
GemtesaVibegron	23	$10,725
Estradiol	115	$7,951
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated	13	$5,733
YuvafemEstradiol	11	$799
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst	28	$213

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other gynecology in New York

Arnold AdvinculaNew York$2.1M
Tamara KolevNew York$91K
Paula CastanoNew York$31K
Christopher EswarNew York$25K
Neena AgarwalaNew York$17K
Tara AllmenNew York$8K
Jorge VenegasNew York$7K
Molly McBrideNew York$7K
Connie LiuNew York$7K
Owen DavisNew York$6K

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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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