Heather Bienz
Primary Care · Liverpool, NYNPI 1750123873
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 168 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 33 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among primary care 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 168 payments — averaging $19.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$549
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$259
- AstraZeneca$243
- AbbVie$242
- GSK$218
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$217
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,298100%
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
$3,298 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 239 primary care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 12 | $320 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 13 | $167 |
| Methylprednisolone | 27 | $156 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 13 | $85 |
| Azithromycin | 26 | $57 |
| Prednisone | 23 | $33 |
| Alprazolam | 15 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other primary care in Liverpool
- Dorothy KleinertNew York$27K
- Stephanie KhanForest Hills$16K
- Albert MarcanoJackson Heights$15K
- Elizabeth GattmanJamestown$10K
- Vanessa WangFlushing$10K
- Elizabeth SmithWaterloo$9K
- Eric RodriguezSyracuse$7K
- Natalie Sommerville-BrooksBrooklyn$6K
- Lisa PlanetaNew York$6K
- Pao-Ju TsengFlushing$6K
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.