Francois Vachon
Family Medicine · Schenectady, NYNPI 1104861293
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.8% of the total across 322 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 40 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,613 and has fallen 87.1% since, to $208 in 2025. Among family medicine 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.
Across 322 payments — averaging $19.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$1K
- Novo Nordisk$761
- AstraZeneca$753
- Boehringer Ingelheim$508
- AbbVie$419
- Johnson & Johnson$210
- plus $2K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,138100%
- Education$100%
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.
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
$6,148 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,321 family medicine providers in New York.
Other family medicine in Schenectady
- Louis BonavitaEast Syracuse$674K
- Martin MahoneyBuffalo$520K
- Scott BrehautClinton$514K
- David St PeterSaratoga Springs$395K
- Matthew PabisNew York$222K
- Rajveer SachdevPomona$211K
- Eric SchnakenbergHalfmoon$190K
- James NorthGlens Falls$186K
- Eric BatesNew York$171K
- Alexander BlinskiNew York$159K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.