RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Cipolla, MD

Otolaryngology · Orchard Park, NYNPI 1841450137

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,309in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 123 payments — averaging $59.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Smith+Nephew$845
  • Aerin Medical Inc.$843
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$831
  • Medtronic$814
  • Intersect ENT, Inc.$799
  • Acclarent, Inc$685
  • plus $2K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$83111%
  • Food & beverage$6,47889%

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

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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

$7,309 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 701 otolaryngology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$80,027
Medicare patients
190
Services billed
711

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
XhanceFluticasone Propionate24$14,265
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth34$5,166
Fluticasone Propionate286$3,187
Azelastine Hcl124$2,618
Ipratropium Bromide56$1,810
Omeprazole204$1,568
Sodium ChlorideSodium Chloride Irrig Solution25$789
Triamcinolone Acetonide27$566
Ciprofloxacin Hcl36$563
Mupirocin87$528
Gentamicin Sulfate14$481
Famotidine55$468
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav51$408
Pantoprazole Sodium50$354
Doxycycline Monohydrate19$178

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
Optinose US, Inc.Xhance$332$14,26524 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 85th percentile of 701 otolaryngology providers in New York.

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