David Pfister, MD
Medical Oncology · New York, NYNPI 1316918154
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 30 payments — averaging $6481.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$106K
- Merck$64K
- Novartis$10K
- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg$10K
- Exelixis Inc.$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,854100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 20 | $105,798 |
| Merck | 6 | $63,909 |
| Novartis | 1 | $10,355 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg | 2 | $9,854 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $4,523 |
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.
- GILOTRIF$9,854
How this compares
$194,439 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 498 medical oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LenvimaLenvatinib Mesylate | 17 | $220,162 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 29 | $251 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 11 | $247 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other medical oncology in New York
- Robert MotzerNew York$32.8M
- Alan HoNew York$32M
- Michael MorrisNew York$30.4M
- Matthew GalskyNew York$28.1M
- Wungki ParkNew York$25.5M
- Komal JhaveriNew York$22.3M
- Joshua RichterNew York$19.9M
- Jia RuanNew York$19.8M
- Andrea CercekNew York$17.8M
- Amy TierstenNew York$17.6M
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.