Has Michael Pitman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,006 in general payments to Michael Pitman, MD across 15 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Michael Pitman, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Michael Pitman, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Michael Pitman, MD

Otolaryngology · New York, NYNPI 1184683476

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $16,764 of the $17,006 with a category attached, or 98.6%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cook Incorporated at 48.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $10,018 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $43 in 2025. Among otolaryngology clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$17,006in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $1133.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Cook Incorporated$8K
Ambu A/s$5K
Pentax Of America, Inc.$3K
Intersect ENT, Inc.$149
Cook Medical LLC$49
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$43

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$16,76499%
Food & beverage$2421%

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
Cook Incorporated	4	$8,311
Ambu A/s	5	$5,390
Pentax Of America, Inc.	2	$3,063
Intersect ENT, Inc.	1	$149
Cook Medical LLC	2	$49
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$43

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

$17,006 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 701 otolaryngology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$263,511

Medicare patients

322

Services billed

5,988

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
Famotidine	56	$1,038
Fluticasone Propionate	89	$904
Pilocarpine Hcl	27	$884
Azelastine Hcl	22	$788
Gabapentin	51	$680
Ipratropium Bromide	17	$626
Omeprazole	41	$334
Amitriptyline Hcl	13	$206
Chlorhexidine Gluconate	16	$122
Tramadol Hcl	22	$120
Methylprednisolone	18	$105

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in New York

Roheen RaithathaNew York$830K
Dennis KrausNew York$159K
Anthony DelsignoreNew York$89K
Satish GovindarajNew York$39K
Lawrence LustigNew York$33K
Justin GolubNew York$30K
Brett MilesNew York$30K
David HiltzikNew York$25K
Milan AminNew York$23K
Ashutosh KackerNew York$20K

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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.

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