RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Finkelstein, MD

Internal Medicine · Scarsdale, NYNPI 1083613442

Payments from drug & device makers

$440in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $16.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$150
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$41
  • IBSA Pharma Inc.$35
  • Smith+Nephew$33
  • Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$29
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$24
  • plus $129 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$440100%

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.

How this compares

$440 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$155,317
Medicare patients
508
Services billed
2,015

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
EliquisApixaban80$64,699
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate22$25,558
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan19$15,576
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol34$14,613
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter18$13,718
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl19$10,142
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium115$7,279
Atorvastatin Calcium478$5,655
Rosuvastatin Calcium255$4,508
Cefpodoxime Proxetil21$4,362
Metoprolol Succinate232$3,281
Escitalopram Oxalate131$3,126
Levothyroxine Sodium191$2,743
Olmesartan Medoxomil72$2,597
Esomeprazole Magnesium16$2,416

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
GSKBreo Ellipta, Trelegy Ellipta$12$28,33052 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$150$7,279115 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 60th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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