Eric Klausner, MD
Family Medicine · Albany, NYNPI 1518982982
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 36 payments — averaging $32.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Organogenesis Inc.$195
- Lifenet Health$148
- Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc.$123
- AbbVie$121
- Smith+Nephew$101
- Medtronic$95
- plus $388 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,172100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Organogenesis Inc. | 5 | $195 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $148 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 2 | $123 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $121 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $101 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $95 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $68 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $43 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $37 |
| GSK | 2 | $30 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $22 |
| Bayer | 1 | $20 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
| Abbott | 1 | $13 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,172 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 4,321 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist. | 31 | $134,908 |
| EliquisApixaban | 77 | $66,229 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 25 | $28,184 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 25 | $26,481 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 20 | $22,751 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 18 | $21,961 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 18 | $20,020 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 15 | $8,607 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 245 | $3,170 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 163 | $2,824 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 46 | $2,773 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 19 | $2,636 |
| Omeprazole | 179 | $2,574 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 88 | $2,093 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 105 | $1,932 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+NephewSantyl | $101 | $134,90831 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $43 | $54,66550 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $12 | $22,75120 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $22 | $20,02018 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $121 | $2,77346 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 4,321 family medicine providers in New York.
Other family medicine in Albany
- Jose DavidAlbany$106K
- Matthew DavisRochester$76.6M
- Frank EderBinghamton$46.2M
- Suchet PatelEndwell$23.3M
- James WildGowanda$2.2M
- Michael FedericoEndwell$1.4M
- Donald BrautigamWestfield$1.3M
- Kimberly DesantisEndwell$1.1M
- Michael TugetmanHartsdale$1M
- Richard RuhOrchard Park$769K
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.