Nicholas Ruggiero, PA
Physician Assistant · Staten Island, NYNPI 1104448489
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 10 payments — averaging $14.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$30
- Lilly USA, LLC$30
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$17
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$16
- Amgen$14
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$14
- plus $23 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$145100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $12 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$145 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 11,358 physician assistant providers in New York.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naproxen | 100 | $641 |
| Meloxicam | 76 | $325 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 12 | $309 |
| Ibuprofen | 11 | $80 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 19 | $79 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $79 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 27 | $53 |
| Amoxicillin | 14 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Staten Island
- Henry YuBronx$1M
- Michael AsbachAmherst$962K
- Janelle BunceJamestown$565K
- Kristyl Cuenca-SiskoNew York$478K
- Melissa WhiteGarden City$320K
- Lawrence HermanHolbrook$315K
- Kaitlyn NelsonBrooklyn$289K
- Sari KatzGarden City$271K
- Julius NwosuBronx$256K
- Cameron KiserNew York$225K
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.