Mark Sterling, MD
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation · Smithtown, NYNPI 1114949450
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 87 payments — averaging $20.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$920
- Amgen$186
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$167
- Johnson & Johnson$148
- Medtronic$130
- Pfizer$38
- plus $174 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,762100%
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(2 entities) | 51 | $920 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 9 | $186 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $167 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $148 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $130 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $38 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Vertex | 1 | $34 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Stryker | 1 | $18 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $18 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, 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.
- INTELLIS$102
How this compares
$1,762 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 872 physical medicine and rehabilitation providers in New York.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 20 | $8,205 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 12 | $3,765 |
| Etodolac | 69 | $1,938 |
| Gabapentin | 151 | $1,434 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 80 | $1,120 |
| Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen | 94 | $1,067 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 73 | $892 |
| Lidocaine | 13 | $764 |
| Meloxicam | 185 | $511 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 53 | $472 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 16 | $379 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 39 | $331 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 16 | $227 |
| Celecoxib | 11 | $209 |
| Carisoprodol | 13 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine and rehabilitation in Smithtown
- Christopher AmenSmithtown$23K
- Margarita NunezStaten Island$2M
- Heakyung KimNew York$453K
- Jeffrey BazarianRochester$430K
- Mary WelchBuffalo$349K
- Joan StillingNew York$332K
- Michael OdellNew York$297K
- Yuxi ChenBronx$295K
- Heidi FuscoNew York$221K
- Jeffrey WeinbergStaten Island$85K
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.