Has Murray Orbuch, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $14,384 in general payments to Murray Orbuch, MD across 29 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 Murray Orbuch, 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 Murray Orbuch, 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.

Murray Orbuch, MD

Gastroenterology · New York, NYNPI 1245266097

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $9,460 of the $14,384 with a category attached, or 65.8%. Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. accounts for 81.7% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$14,384in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $495.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$12K
Histosonics, Inc.$2K
Intra-sana Laboratories$292
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$238
GSK$99
Pfizer$43
plus $53 from 3 others

$152,622in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $2992.58 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

AbbVie$72K
Amgen$31K
Eli Lilly$24K
Genentech, Inc.$18K
Sanofi$9K

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$9,46066%
Travel & lodging$3,44024%
Food & beverage$1,48410%

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
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	18	$11,748
Histosonics, Inc.	1	$1,910
Intra-sana Laboratories	2	$292
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$238
GSK	1	$99
Pfizer	2	$43
Viiv Healthcare Company	1	$22
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$19
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$13

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

$14,384 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,682 gastroenterology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$17,893

Medicare patients

Services billed

156

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
LinzessLinaclotide	14	$7,733
Famotidine	35	$953
Pantoprazole Sodium	28	$600
Budesonide DrBudesonide	12	$554
Celecoxib	11	$173
Levothyroxine Sodium	18	$17
Amlodipine Besylate	16	$8

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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