Has Donelle Cummings, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,051 in general payments to Donelle Cummings, MD across 50 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 Donelle Cummings, 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 Donelle Cummings, 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.

Donelle Cummings, MD

Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1649539552

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.8%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Olympus Corporation Of The Americas at 41.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,075, 2.2 times the $486 reported in 2019. Among anatomic pathology & clinical pathology clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$3,051in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 50 payments — averaging $61.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$1K
AbbVie$513
Pfizer$280
Covidien LP$242
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$150
Dova Pharmaceuticals$143
plus $452 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1104%
Travel & lodging$1,23841%
Food & beverage$1,70256%

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
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas	10	$1,271
AbbVie	16	$513
Pfizer	10	$280
Covidien LP	3	$242
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals	1	$150
Dova Pharmaceuticals	1	$143
Exact Sciences	1	$122
Medtronic	1	$110
Aries Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$101
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	3	$54
Boston Scientific	2	$46
Gilead	1	$19

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.

Single Use Electrosurgical Knife KD-655$745
DISPOSABLE DISTAL ATTACHMENT$745
Olympus$371
4K Cable 8.5M$371
Barrx$163
REZDIFFRA$150
DOPTELET$143
Creon$125
The Cologuard Plus Collection Kit$122
LINZESS$117
VELSIPITY$114
Beacon$110
ELEVIEW$101

How this compares

$3,051 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 468 anatomic pathology & clinical pathology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$10,846

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Omeprazole	24	$365

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Judy SarungbamBronx$67K
Zhi-Qiang Patrick HuFlushing$65K
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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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