Has Monica Okun, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $852 in general payments to Monica Okun, MD across 8 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 Monica Okun, 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 Monica Okun, 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.

Monica Okun, MD

Otolaryngology · New York, NYNPI 1740497791

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 8 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sanofi at 31.0% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for otolaryngology clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $1,040.

$852in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $106.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Sanofi$264
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$252
Stryker$151
Olympus America Inc.$122
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$40
GSK$23

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$852100%

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
Sanofi	2	$264
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$252
Stryker	1	$151
Olympus America Inc.	1	$122
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$40
GSK	1	$23

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

$852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 701 otolaryngology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$126,507

Medicare patients

663

Services billed

1,134

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
Hydrocortisone-Acetic AcidHydrocortisone/Acetic Acid	42	$4,593
Ipratropium Bromide	156	$3,402
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	18	$1,825
Fluticasone Propionate	121	$1,537
Azelastine Hcl	32	$1,158
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	19	$812
Omeprazole	72	$638
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	49	$546
Ofloxacin	11	$405
Montelukast Sodium	44	$325
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	15	$324
Cefdinir	15	$240
Acetic Acid	16	$231
Doxycycline Hyclate	28	$212
Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride	23	$166

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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