Has Ruth Tessler, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $33,057 in general payments to Ruth Tessler, MD across 61 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 Ruth Tessler, 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 Ruth Tessler, 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.

Ruth Tessler, MD

Obstetrics & Gynecology · New York, NYNPI 1740344969

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $21,550 of the $33,057 with a category attached, or 65.2%. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 61.6% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among obstetrics & gynecology clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$33,057in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 61 payments — averaging $541.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$20K
Myovant Sciences Inc.$6K
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$5K
Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$1K
AbbVie$63
Pfizer$58
plus $177 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$21,55065%
Speaking & faculty fees$9,12028%
Travel & lodging$1,6355%
Food & beverage$7532%

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
Johnson & Johnson	23	$20,350
Myovant Sciences Inc.	14	$6,023
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	9	$5,187
Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.	1	$1,200
AbbVie	3	$63
Pfizer	2	$58
Coopersurgical, Inc.	2	$45
Organon	2	$41
Davol Inc.	1	$35
Merck	2	$30
Channel Medsystems, Inc.	1	$14
Avion Pharmaceuticals	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.

MYFEMBREE$11,083

How this compares

$33,057 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,673 obstetrics & gynecology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$48,568

Medicare patients

109

Services billed

432

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
Estradiol	41	$3,031
ProgesteroneProgesterone, Micronized	20	$683
Estradiol (Once Weekly)Estradiol	12	$294
JunelNorethindrone Ac/Eth Estradiol	14	$212
Misoprostol	23	$38

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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