Peter Schuman
Physician Assistant · Albany, NYNPI 1447242532
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 108 payments — averaging $38.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$576
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$518
- Novo Nordisk$486
- AbbVie$305
- Intuitive Surgical$291
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$259
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3619%
- Food & beverage$3,84891%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 7 | $576 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 34 | $518 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $486 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $305 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $291 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 7 | $259 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $235 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $208 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $184 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $160 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Biogen | 2 | $126 |
| Vertex | 6 | $124 |
| Merck | 1 | $123 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $69 |
| United Imaging Healthcare North America LLC | 1 | $61 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $37 |
| International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Iovera$476
- Wegovy$367
- Da Vinci Surgical System$291
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$184
- XEOMIN$149
- SPRINT PNS System$137
- RUBY Coil$136
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$130
- KEYTRUDA$123
- BOTOX$120
How this compares
$4,209 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 11,358 physician assistant providers in New York.
Other physician assistant in Albany
- 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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.