Has Nilofar Sarvaiya, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,450 in general payments to Nilofar Sarvaiya, MD across 52 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 Nilofar Sarvaiya, 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 Nilofar Sarvaiya, 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.

Nilofar Sarvaiya, MD

Psychiatry · Buffalo, NYNPI 1134548910

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,450in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 52 payments — averaging $27.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$544
Alkermes, Inc.$399
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$154
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$143
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$46
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$42
plus $122 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,450100%

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
AbbVie	29	$544
Alkermes, Inc.	4	$399
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	7	$154
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	2	$143
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$46
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$42
Indivior Inc.	2	$41
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	2	$39
Braeburn Inc.	1	$23
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$20

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

$1,450 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,713 psychiatry providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$7,407

Medicare patients

Services billed

114

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
IngrezzaValbenazine Tosylate	12	$90,978
Risperdal ConstaRisperidone Microspheres	13	$16,522
RexultiBrexpiprazole	11	$16,223
Clozapine	112	$11,538
NuedextaDextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine	11	$8,931
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl	18	$6,033
Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate	36	$4,959
Vilazodone Hcl	21	$2,876
Aripiprazole	43	$2,033
Quetiapine Fumarate ErQuetiapine Fumarate	18	$1,721
Buspirone Hcl	62	$1,702
Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium	15	$1,690
Haloperidol Decanoate	34	$1,657
Olanzapine	53	$1,406
Risperidone	48	$1,297

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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