RxDoctor Payments Data

Kathrin Lafaver, MD

Neurology · Saratoga Springs, NYNPI 1528188836

Payments from drug & device makers

$44,327in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $1303.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$21K
  • Acorda Therapeutics, Inc$9K
  • AbbVie$8K
  • Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$3K
  • Biogen$1K
  • Boston Scientific$395
  • plus $1K from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$13,10388%
  • Travel & lodging$2101%
  • Food & beverage$1,51910%

General payments by program year

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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

$44,327 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,623 neurology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$69,195
Medicare patients
393
Services billed
1,025

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
OctagamImmun Globg(Igg)/Malt/Iga Ov5013$290,006
NuplazidPimavanserin Tartrate29$128,334
IngrezzaValbenazine Tosylate12$109,271
Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate85$104,400
RytaryCarbidopa/Levodopa58$103,305
UbrelvyUbrogepant63$90,692
RexultiBrexpiprazole24$32,667
Ajovy AutoinjectorFremanezumab-Vfrm34$28,775
Emgality PenGalcanezumab-Gnlm24$22,785
Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe17$17,389
QuliptaAtogepant12$14,604
XcopriCenobamate11$13,646
Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa491$13,357
Lacosamide57$7,185
Carbamazepine ErCarbamazepine37$6,728

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Acadia Pharmaceuticals IncNuplazid$195$128,33429 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCRytary, Mycophenolate Mofetil, Pyridostigmine Bromide$79$109,50288 claims
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.Ingrezza$72$109,27112 claims
AbbVieUbrelvy, Qulipta$8,258$105,29675 claims
SK Life Science, Inc.Xcopri$175$13,64611 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 1,623 neurology providers in New York.

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