Howard Scher, MD
Medical Oncology · New York, NYNPI 1689645533
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $32,181 of the $46,143 with a category attached, or 69.7%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pfizer at 58.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $15,554, 5.2 times the $3,009 reported in 2019.
Across 54 payments — averaging $854.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$27K
- Regeneron$7K
- Bayer$4K
- Sanofi$3K
- Novartis$2K
- Janssen Global Services, LLC$2K
- plus $2K from 7 others
Across 112 payments — averaging $58,872 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$5.3M
- Bayer$925K
- Pfizer$192K
- Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.$171K
- Amgen$810
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$32,18170%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,13020%
- Travel & lodging$2,1965%
- Food & beverage$2,6376%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 19 | $26,989 |
| Regeneron | 8 | $6,886 |
| Bayer | 4 | $4,084 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $2,593 |
| Novartis | 2 | $2,135 |
| Janssen Global Services, LLC | 1 | $1,550 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 5 | $923 |
| Menarini Silicon Biosystems, Inc. | 3 | $331 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $226 |
| Bio-rad Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 4 | $143 |
| Eli Lilly | 1 | $104 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $29 |
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.
- TALZENNA$25,347
- Nubeqa$2,106
- Non-Covered$1,931
- RYBREVANT$1,550
- XTANDI$1,157
- NO PRODUCT DISCUSSED$430
- CELLSEARCH$246
- Erleada$226
- ORGOVYX$217
- Services$151
- SUTENT$110
- INLYTA$110
How this compares
$46,143 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 498 medical oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| NubeqaDarolutamide | 34 | $444,782 |
| OrgovyxRelugolix | 43 | $112,414 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BayerNubeqa | $4,084 | $444,78234 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 75th percentile of 498 medical oncology providers in New York.
Other medical oncology in New York
- Craig ThompsonNew York$4.8M
- Andrew SeidmanNew York$1.3M
- Joshua RichterNew York$971K
- Edward GelmannNew York$944K
- Ghassan Abou-AlfaNew York$825K
- Miguel PeralesNew York$769K
- Komal JhaveriNew York$642K
- Joshua BrodyNew York$492K
- Aiwu HeNew York$445K
- Raajit RampalNew York$418K
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.