RxDoctor Payments Data

Samuel Sigal, MD

Hepatology · Garden City, NYNPI 1457448540

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (52.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gilead at 50.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $14,447 and has fallen 93.7% since, to $908 in 2025.

$36,460in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 94 payments — averaging $387.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$19K
  • Eli Lilly$8K
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$6K
  • Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$905
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$172
  • plus $1K from 10 others
$830,673in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 286 payments — averaging $2904.45 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$476K
  • Gilead$209K
  • Eli Lilly$62K
  • Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$38K
  • Intercept Pharma Europe Ltd.$23K
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$8K
  • plus $15K from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$19,25553%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$11,32031%
  • Travel & lodging$2,9168%
  • Food & beverage$2,7898%
  • Education$1800%

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.

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

$36,460 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 29 hepatology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$98,587
Medicare patients
349
Services billed
921

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
XifaxanRifaximin35$145,350
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide49$103,782
Ursodiol46$6,223
Tacrolimus26$2,894
Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate15$2,831
Lactulose19$747
Pantoprazole Sodium18$196
Furosemide29$157
Famotidine12$96
Carvedilol15$60

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
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$172$145,35035 claims
GileadVemlidy$18,541$103,78249 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 65th percentile of 29 hepatology providers in New York.

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