Has Salvatore Buffa, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,588 in general payments to Salvatore Buffa, MD across 236 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 Salvatore Buffa, 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 Salvatore Buffa, 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.

Salvatore Buffa, MD

Gastroenterology · Poughkeepsie, NYNPI 1346244027

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,588in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 236 payments — averaging $44.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Tosoh Bioscience, Inc.$4K
AbbVie$1K
Romark Laboratories, LC$915
Boston Scientific$697
Pfizer$469
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$371
plus $3K from 24 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$6,56662%
Education$170%
Gifts$4,00638%

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
Tosoh Bioscience, Inc.	2	$4,006
AbbVie	62	$1,428
Romark Laboratories, LC	41	$915
Boston Scientific	15	$697
Pfizer	17	$469
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	19	$371
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	12	$338
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$311
Cook Medical LLC	3	$258
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$220
Gilead	4	$181
Capsovision, Inc.	1	$158
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	9	$156
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.	9	$147
QOL Medical, LLC	5	$133
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$125
Sanofi	3	$125
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$113
Lilly USA, LLC	3	$70
Merck	4	$68
Ardelyx, Inc.	3	$59
Johnson & Johnson	3	$53
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$35
Alfasigma USA, Inc.	2	$34
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$33
Shionogi Inc	2	$31
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$17
Curium US LLC	1	$13
Medtronic	1	$13
UCB, Inc.	1	$11

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

$10,588 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,682 gastroenterology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$171,751

Medicare patients

522

Services billed

3,159

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
Mesalamine	19	$15,770
Pantoprazole Sodium	395	$3,240
Sucralfate	23	$1,666
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates	18	$1,152
Omeprazole	84	$1,077
Metoclopramide Hcl	14	$220
Famotidine	16	$142
Ondansetron Hcl	12	$78

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other gastroenterology in Poughkeepsie

Michael GerdisYonkers$11.9M
David HudesmanNew York$3.6M
Ellen ScherlNew York$2.9M
Igor GrosmanBrooklyn$2.8M
Bruce SandsNew York$2.8M
Arun SwaminathNew York$2.7M
Sonal KumarNew York$2.3M
David Carr LockeNew York$2.1M
Arthur KornbluthNew York$1.9M
Maya SrivastavaWilliamsville$1.8M

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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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