RxDoctor Payments Data

Richard Ferguson, MD

Neurology · Buffalo, NYNPI 1467420638

Payments from drug & device makers

$381in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $38.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Salvin Dental Specialties, Inc.$94
  • Argenx US, Inc.$93
  • MDD US Operations, LLC$70
  • Biogen$67
  • Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC$16
  • Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$15
  • plus $27 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$381100%

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

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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.

How this compares

$381 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,623 neurology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$13,917
Medicare patients
42
Services billed
155

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
GocovriAmantadine Hcl22$36,114
DilantinPhenytoin Sodium Extended63$7,765
Entacapone38$4,005
DepakoteDivalproex Sodium12$3,178
Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa65$2,524
Rasagiline Mesylate19$2,351
Rivastigmine17$1,202
Oxcarbazepine25$971
Lacosamide11$889
Levetiracetam48$791
KlonopinClonazepam11$671
Memantine Hcl18$627
Pramipexole DihydrochloridePramipexole Di-Hcl15$418
Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium13$409
Phenobarbital29$347

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
MDD US Operations, LLCGocovri$70$36,11422 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 35th percentile of 1,623 neurology providers in New York.

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