Joanna Esterow
Physician Assistant · New York, NYNPI 1194910083
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,092 of the $5,499 with a category attached, or 74.4%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. at 24.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,298 and has fallen 91.1% since, to $205 in 2025. Among physician assistant 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 162 payments — averaging $33.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$1K
- AbbVie$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$667
- Lilly USA, LLC$666
- Bristol Myers Squibb$439
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$263
- plus $777 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,40826%
- Food & beverage$4,09274%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 34 | $1,366 |
| AbbVie | 53 | $1,322 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 20 | $667 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $666 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 19 | $439 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $263 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $250 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $130 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Organon | 4 | $103 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $20 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$5,499 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 11,358 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine | 16 | $604 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in New York
- Kristyl Cuenca-SiskoNew York$478K
- Cameron KiserNew York$225K
- Mervat FalahNew York$143K
- Marlene TaylorNew York$109K
- Natalie TafelNew York$77K
- Jonathan YehNew York$57K
- Emily ElbogenNew York$49K
- Jaclyn ChurchillNew York$48K
- Russell BrandweinNew York$44K
- Michelle MelchiorreNew York$35K
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.