Katelyn Szymkowski
Physician Assistant · Buffalo, NYNPI 1790456887
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 64 payments — averaging $22.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$189
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$143
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$120
- Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$118
- Boston Scientific$112
- Gilead$100
- plus $642 from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,424100%
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 | 5 | $189 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $143 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 17 | $118 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $112 |
| Gilead | 1 | $100 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $61 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 2 | $53 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $45 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $33 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $26 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Bayer | 1 | $20 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| GSK | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $17 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $6 |
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.
- Zilretta$120
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$112
- Epclusa$100
How this compares
$1,424 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 40 | $68,544 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 39 | $48,995 |
| EliquisApixaban | 26 | $23,135 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 21 | $22,339 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 16 | $15,903 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 21 | $11,275 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 17 | $6,637 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 26 | $2,118 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 141 | $2,063 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 61 | $1,961 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 118 | $1,656 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 48 | $1,271 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 136 | $1,264 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 68 | $1,254 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 53 | $1,133 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $61 | $68,54440 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $18 | $28,97638 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $45 | $23,13526 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $23 | $15,90316 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $189 | $2,11826 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium | $16 | $2,063141 claims |
| Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl | $16 | $62644 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 80th percentile of 11,358 physician assistant providers in New York.
Other physician assistant in Buffalo
- Scott SpringerBuffalo$95K
- Henry YuBronx$1M
- Michael AsbachAmherst$962K
- Janelle BunceJamestown$565K
- Kristyl Cuenca-SiskoNew York$478K
- Melissa WhiteGarden City$320K
- Lawrence HermanHolbrook$315K
- Kaitlyn NelsonBrooklyn$289K
- Sari KatzGarden City$271K
- Julius NwosuBronx$256K
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.