Has Sanda Carniciu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $825 in general payments to Sanda Carniciu, MD across 30 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 Sanda Carniciu, 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 Sanda Carniciu, 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.

Sanda Carniciu, MD

Neurology · Sleepy Hollow, NYNPI 1578543237

Payments from drug & device makers

$825in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $27.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Pfizer$427
CSL Behring$136
Eisai Inc.$125
Lilly USA, LLC$104
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.$19
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$14

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$81499%
Education$111%

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
Pfizer	24	$427
CSL Behring	2	$136
Eisai Inc.	1	$125
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$104
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	1	$19
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	1	$14

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

$825 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,623 neurology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$407,729

Medicare patients

738

Services billed

2,907

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
Gamunex-CImmune Globul G/Gly/Iga Avg 46	20	$157,258
UbrelvyUbrogepant	27	$74,769
Memantine Hcl ErMemantine Hcl	240	$32,230
NamzaricMemantine Hcl/Donepezil Hcl	35	$31,636
Rivastigmine	79	$23,122
Emgality PenGalcanezumab-Gnlm	25	$16,395
Lamotrigine ErLamotrigine	16	$8,263
Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa	204	$7,020
Duloxetine Hcl	165	$6,373
Rasagiline Mesylate	21	$6,322
Rosuvastatin Calcium	152	$3,971
Carbamazepine ErCarbamazepine	25	$3,697
RivastigmineRivastigmine Tartrate	27	$3,342
Memantine Hcl	100	$2,905
Ropinirole ErRopinirole Hcl	18	$2,746

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurology in Sleepy Hollow

Christian GrommesNew York$9.9M
Ilya KisterNew York$9.5M
E DorseyNew York$8.5M
Lauren SchaffNew York$8.2M
Richard HolubAlbany$6.3M
Martin SadowskiNew York$5.4M
Lawrence HonigNew York$4.9M
Laszlo MechtlerAmherst$4.3M
Bennett MyersAmherst$3.8M
Krupa PandeyAlbany$3.8M

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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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