RxDoctor Payments Data

Cheryl Mensah, MD

Hematology & Oncology · New York, NYNPI 1730454232

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $245,650 of the $248,829 with a category attached, or 98.7%. Vertex accounts for 94.6% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $82,775 and has fallen 84.0% since, to $13,220 in 2025. Among hematology & oncology 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.

$248,829in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 181 payments — averaging $1374.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vertex$235K
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$6K
  • Chiesi USA, Inc.$6K
  • Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$309
  • Sanofi$289
  • Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$264
  • plus $1K from 12 others
$33,775in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $6755.00 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.

  • Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$33K
  • Novo Nordisk AS$400

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$245,65099%
  • Travel & lodging$1,0250%
  • Food & beverage$2,0971%
  • Education$560%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$248,829 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 967 hematology & oncology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$52,192
Medicare patients
179
Services billed
380

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
AdakveoCrizanlizumab-Tmca11$75,765
EliquisApixaban73$45,766
XareltoRivaroxaban20$16,002
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl12$13,184
Oxycodone Hcl27$1,118
Hydroxyurea51$931
Methadone Hcl18$551
Hydromorphone Hcl16$298
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron17$246
Diphenhydramine Hcl16$68

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
NovartisAdakveo$242$75,76511 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$57$16,00220 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 967 hematology & oncology providers in New York.

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