Joseph Yacovone
Diagnostic Radiology · Middletown, NYNPI 1245255538
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $419,709 of the $419,709 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Merck accounts for 92.8% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $229,236 and has fallen 96.8% since, to $7,230 in 2024. Among diagnostic radiology clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 244 payments — averaging $1720.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$389K
- Pfizer$30K
Across 67 payments — averaging $9524.15 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.
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$360K
- GSK$226K
- Eli Lilly$50K
- Hoffmann-la Roche Limited$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$419,709100%
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
$419,709 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,530 diagnostic radiology providers in New York.
Other diagnostic radiology in Middletown
- Elizabeth Ramirez de ArellanoMiddletown$297K
- Thomas SosNew York$3.5M
- Derace SchafferRochester$2.1M
- Lawrence TanenbaumNew York$1.5M
- Alan BrookBronx$930K
- Jason DunleavyWilliamsville$560K
- Gregory SicaNew York$496K
- Kevin BakerStony Brook$447K
- Marc BrownNew York$435K
- Mark WestcottNew York$420K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.