Has Sang Kim, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $916 in general payments to Sang Kim, MD across 13 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 Sang Kim, 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 Sang Kim, 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.

Sang Kim, MD

Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck · East Syracuse, NYNPI 1548434236

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $582 of the $916 with a category attached, or 63.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 63.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $625 and has fallen 83.0% since, to $106 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for plastic surgery within the head & neck clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $1,306.

$916in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $70.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$582
Stryker$139
Aerin Medical Inc.$86
Boehringer Ingelheim$45
Intersect ENT, Inc.$43
Vertex$20

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$58264%
Food & beverage$33436%

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
Intuitive Surgical	6	$582
Stryker	2	$139
Aerin Medical Inc.	1	$86
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$45
Intersect ENT, Inc.	1	$43
Vertex	1	$20

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

$916 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 45 plastic surgery within the head & neck providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$133,125

Medicare patients

148

Services billed

1,718

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
Cephalexin	209	$1,317
Mometasone Furoate	27	$1,181
Fluticasone Propionate	37	$715
Ipratropium Bromide	21	$643
Montelukast Sodium	22	$372
Methylprednisolone	57	$351
Clindamycin Hcl	49	$315
Azelastine Hcl	18	$285
Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride	27	$245
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	14	$196
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	53	$135
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	23	$86

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Robert LohmanBuffalo$21K
William BellesTonawanda$15K
Eric CohenNew York$9K
Anthony AlessiValhalla$7K
Erich VoigtNew York$6K
George BraunNew York$4K
Adrian OngNew York$3K

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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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