Robert Josephberg, MD
Retina Specialist · Hawthorne, NYNPI 1588601793
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.9% of the total across 122 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 122 payments — averaging $59.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$2K
- AbbVie$1K
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$600
- Genentech USA, Inc.$593
- Amgen$508
- BD$414
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4146%
- Food & beverage$6,76794%
- Education$80%
- Gifts$190%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 16 | $1,594 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 19 | $1,025 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 15 | $600 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 20 | $593 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 10 | $508 |
| BD | 1 | $414 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 4 | $368 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 6 | $355 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 3 | $276 |
| Novartis | 2 | $250 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 4 | $179 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $166 |
| Alcon | 1 | $143 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $113 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Astellas Pharma Global Development | 2 | $28 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $22 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- EYLEA$1,092
- ACTHAR$499
- EYLEA HD$474
- TEPEZZA$371
- Izervay$368
- VABYSMO$299
- LUMIGAN$226
- AcrySof$143
- YUTIQ$135
- BEOVU$125
- RESTASIS$125
- MIEBO$125
- XIIDRA$125
- VYZULTA$125
- INVELTYS$125
- TRUMATCH$125
- MATRIXCOMBO$125
- MATRIXWAVE$125
- MATRIXORTHOGNATHIC$125
- MATRIXMIDFACE$125
How this compares
$7,209 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 99 retina specialist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Travoprost | 11 | $2,762 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 127 | $2,513 |
| Latanoprost | 192 | $1,955 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 92 | $1,359 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 71 | $1,112 |
| Timolol Maleate | 81 | $666 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 13 | $624 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 13 | $476 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 12 | $126 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other retina specialist in Hawthorne
- Paul HahnNanuet$238K
- Deepika MalikWoodbury$221K
- Szilard KissNew York$195K
- Ferhina AliValhalla$176K
- Donald D'amicoNew York$109K
- Matthew WitmerRochester$62K
- Avnish DeobhaktaBrooklyn$46K
- Edward HallRochester$38K
- Philip NilesWilliamsville$30K
- Mark BreazzanoLiverpool$30K
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.