James Bruno, MD
Neurology · Stony Brook, NYNPI 1750436879
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 214 payments — averaging $69.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$6K
- SK Life Science, Inc.$1K
- UCB, Inc.$1K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$971
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$625
- Harmony Biosciences LLC$538
- plus $4K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,82139%
- Travel & lodging$7765%
- Food & beverage$7,99553%
- Education$3773%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $6,340 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 24 | $1,260 |
| UCB, Inc. | 35 | $1,163 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 6 | $971 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $625 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 18 | $538 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 12 | $487 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 11 | $461 |
| GSK | 16 | $355 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 17 | $325 |
| Greenwich Biosciences, Inc. | 9 | $310 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $224 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $201 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $186 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $180 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $159 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $151 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $139 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $119 |
| Amgen | 2 | $118 |
| Eisai Inc. | 6 | $108 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 6 | $106 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $55 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $46 |
| Biogen | 3 | $43 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $29 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- APTIOM$6,143
- VNS Therapy$889
- Intracept$698
- AJOVY$625
- XCOPRI$355
- Briviact$310
- Cenobamate$240
- XARELTO$224
- UBRELVY$219
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$159
- SOLIRIS$125
- Fintepla$125
- INGREZZA$125
- ONGENTYS$125
- Epidiolex$125
- QULIPTA$122
- AFREZZA$119
- NURTEC ODT$117
- Wakix$111
How this compares
$14,970 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,623 neurology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| AptiomEslicarbazepine Acetate | 44 | $52,462 |
| XcopriCenobamate | 36 | $38,472 |
| BriviactBrivaracetam | 13 | $17,234 |
| FycompaPerampanel | 12 | $14,737 |
| VimpatLacosamide | 12 | $14,626 |
| Levetiracetam | 94 | $3,830 |
| Lacosamide | 40 | $3,743 |
| CarbatrolCarbamazepine | 12 | $3,041 |
| Gabapentin | 162 | $2,258 |
| Topiramate | 105 | $1,634 |
| Pregabalin | 34 | $1,339 |
| Clonazepam | 21 | $1,297 |
| Oxcarbazepine | 22 | $1,086 |
| Donepezil Hcl | 97 | $865 |
| Divalproex Sodium | 35 | $709 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.Aptiom | $6,340 | $52,46244 claims |
| SK Life Science, Inc.Xcopri | $1,260 | $38,47236 claims |
| UCB, Inc.Briviact, Vimpat | $1,163 | $31,86025 claims |
| Eisai Inc.Fycompa | $108 | $14,73712 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 1,623 neurology providers in New York.
Other neurology in Stony Brook
- Christian GrommesNew York$9.9M
- Ilya KisterNew York$9.5M
- E DorseyNew York$8.5M
- Lauren SchaffNew York$8.2M
- Richard HolubAlbany$6.3M
- Martin SadowskiNew York$5.4M
- Lawrence HonigNew York$4.9M
- Laszlo MechtlerAmherst$4.3M
- Bennett MyersAmherst$3.8M
- Krupa PandeyAlbany$3.8M
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.