RxDoctor Payments Data

Eli Finkelsztein, MD

Infectious Disease · Ithaca, NYNPI 1932632171

Payments from drug & device makers

$869in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $22.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$271
  • Gilead$204
  • AbbVie$143
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$131
  • Insmed, Inc.$75
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$45

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$82495%
  • Education$455%

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

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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

$869 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 799 infectious disease providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$74,755
Medicare patients
329
Services billed
967

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
DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine24$66,678
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala16$61,556
SymtuzaDarunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf11$47,116
IsentressRaltegravir Potassium14$25,089
Maraviroc12$8,827
Mesalamine ErMesalamine12$2,607
Methenamine Hippurate34$1,447
Cefadroxil34$899
Atovaquone-Proguanil HclAtovaquone/Proguanil Hcl12$747
Lamivudine12$585
Gabapentin20$518
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate15$458
Amoxicillin18$199
Doxycycline Hyclate20$180
Losartan Potassium16$91

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
Viiv Healthcare CompanyDovato$131$66,67824 claims
GileadBiktarvy$204$61,55616 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 65th percentile of 799 infectious disease providers in New York.

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