RxDoctor Payments Data

Paul Riska, MD

Infectious Disease · Bronx, NYNPI 1245274364

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,560 of the $6,588 with a category attached, or 69.2%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Viiv Healthcare Company at 46.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,345 and has fallen 91.4% since, to $289 in 2025.

$6,588in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 64 payments — averaging $102.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Viiv Healthcare Company$3K
  • Gilead$1K
  • Shionogi Inc$1K
  • AbbVie$275
  • Janssen Products, LP$170
  • Johnson & Johnson$160
  • plus $143 from 2 others
$284,916in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $11,871 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.

  • Merck$141K
  • Qiagen, LLC$66K
  • La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$31K
  • Shionogi Inc$23K
  • Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$13K
  • Scynexis, Inc.$11K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,56069%
  • Travel & lodging$1072%
  • Food & beverage$1,75227%
  • Education$1703%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$6,588 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 799 infectious disease providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$30,331
Medicare patients
134
Services billed
299

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala335$1,288,545
SymtuzaDarunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf59$298,741
DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine56$168,935
PrezcobixDarunavir/Cobicistat61$140,298
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam61$123,596
OdefseyEmtricitab/Rilpiviri/Tenof Ala35$120,726
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium56$117,338
GenvoyaElviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen30$111,518
CabenuvaCabotegravir/Rilpivirine17$101,421
JulucaDolutegravir/Rilpivirine21$69,969
StribildElviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenofo Disop12$46,906
TriumeqAbacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi12$42,090
OzempicSemaglutide36$38,554
JardianceEmpagliflozin29$25,626
Isentress HdRaltegravir Potassium12$22,426

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
GileadBiktarvy, Descovy, Genvoya, Stribild$1,481$1,570,566438 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyDovato, Tivicay, Cabenuva, Juluca, Triumeq$3,033$499,753162 claims
Janssen Products, LPSymtuza$170$298,74159 claims
Johnson & JohnsonPrezcobix$160$140,29861 claims
PfizerEliquis$31$16,37024 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 799 infectious disease providers in New York.

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