Has Helen Flamenbaum, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,168 in general payments to Helen Flamenbaum, MD across 454 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 Helen Flamenbaum, 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 Helen Flamenbaum, 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.

Helen Flamenbaum, MD

Dermatology · New Hyde Park, NYNPI 1679537849

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,168in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 454 payments — averaging $15.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$991
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$746
Dermavant Sciences, Inc.$663
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$643
Lilly USA, LLC$583
Sanofi$480
plus $3K from 27 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$7,150100%
Education$180%

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
AbbVie	69	$991
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	64	$746
Dermavant Sciences, Inc.	49	$663
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	25	$643
Lilly USA, LLC	55	$583
Sanofi	22	$480
Incyte Corporation	22	$460
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	20	$355
Pfizer	15	$331
Johnson & Johnson	21	$314
Biofrontera Inc.	17	$282
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	12	$204
Botanix SB Inc	12	$185
EPI Health, LLC	8	$115
Amgen	5	$102
Organon	4	$83
LEO Pharma Inc.	4	$76
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	4	$73
Medimetriks Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$61
Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$46
Novartis	2	$42
Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC	3	$42
Almirall LLC	2	$38
Dermira, Inc.	2	$36
Organogenesis Inc.	2	$36
Bristol Myers Squibb	2	$32
Journey Medical Corporation	2	$31
Merck	2	$31
DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$21
Mission Pharmacal Company	1	$20
Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals	2	$18
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$15
Merz North America, Inc.	1	$14

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.

BOTOX$132
OPZELURA$128
EUCRISA$107

How this compares

$7,168 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,151 dermatology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$339,711

Medicare patients

1,038

Services billed

4,973

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
Metronidazole	112	$6,170
Ciclopirox	117	$4,866
Ammonium Lactate	127	$3,091
CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine	124	$2,708
Clobetasol Propionate	42	$1,926
Tretinoin	12	$1,808
Mupirocin	209	$1,652
Tacrolimus	13	$1,619
Fluorouracil	27	$1,611
Triamcinolone Acetonide	163	$1,595
Mometasone Furoate	63	$1,341
Ketoconazole	92	$1,323
Clindamycin Phosphate	42	$1,232
Hydrocortisone	95	$1,079
Econazole Nitrate	25	$1,025

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other dermatology in New Hyde Park

Amit GargNew Hyde Park$1.2M
Emma GuttmanNew York$35.3M
Saakshi KhattriNew York$15.4M
James KruegerNew York$6.3M
Michael CameronNew York$5.8M
Mark LebwohlNew York$5.8M
Andrew AlexisNew York$5.7M
John TuRochester$5.4M
Jeffrey WeinbergKew Gardens$4.9M
Neil SadickNew York$4.2M

See the full list for New York →

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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