Has Fred Fefer, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $299 in general payments to Fred Fefer, MD across 4 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 Fred Fefer, 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 Fred Fefer, 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.

Fred Fefer, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Valley Stream, NYNPI 1477550135

Payments from drug & device makers

$299in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $74.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$159
Abbott$120
Irhythm Technologies, Inc.$21

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$299100%

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
Boston Scientific	2	$159
Abbott	1	$120
Irhythm Technologies, Inc.	1	$21

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.

Mitra Clip system$120
EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$114

How this compares

$299 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$462,616

Medicare patients

2,094

Services billed

6,712

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
EliquisApixaban	121	$150,289
XareltoRivaroxaban	84	$82,503
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	43	$61,815
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol	22	$32,071
Praluent PenAlirocumab	14	$10,850
Metoprolol Succinate	203	$3,246
Atorvastatin Calcium	238	$2,270
Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide	34	$1,423
Valsartan	63	$1,238
Losartan-HydrochlorothiazideLosartan/Hydrochlorothiazide	47	$1,133
Rosuvastatin Calcium	83	$1,100
Carvedilol	93	$913
Amlodipine Besylate	130	$816
Levothyroxine Sodium	31	$741
Furosemide	113	$651

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other cardiovascular disease in Valley Stream

James MinNew York$41.1M
Robert RosensonNew York$6.9M
Roxana MehranNew York$6.4M
Roger HajjarNew York$5.2M
Philippe GenereuxNew York$4.4M
Vijay IyerAmherst$4.3M
Gregg StoneNew York$3.7M
Szilard VorosStony Brook$3.7M
Valentin FusterNew York$2.9M
Sean DonahoeRiverhead$2.8M

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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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