Has Sarah Atkinson received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,261 in general payments to Sarah Atkinson across 17 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 Sarah Atkinson 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 Sarah Atkinson 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.

Sarah Atkinson

General Practice · Rochester, NYNPI 1285859306

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $7,400 of the $10,261 with a category attached, or 72.1%. Alkermes, Inc. accounts for 68.4% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among general practice 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.

$10,261in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $603.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alkermes, Inc.$7K
Pfizer$2K
F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$1K
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$618

$5,051,465in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 757 payments — averaging $6673.00 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.

AbbVie$1.3M
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$1.2M
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$655K
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$481K
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$291K
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$142K
plus $951K from 16 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$7,40072%
Travel & lodging$1,90119%
Food & beverage$9609%

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
Alkermes, Inc.	7	$7,019
Pfizer	4	$1,524
F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG	1	$1,100
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$618

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.

GEODON$1,524

How this compares

$10,261 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,764 general practice providers in New York.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
FanaptIloperidone	13	$28,708
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide	14	$13,782
Paliperidone ErPaliperidone	12	$3,951
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	37	$1,897
Aripiprazole	24	$964
Trazodone Hcl	12	$525
Dextroamphetamine-Amphet ErDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine	11	$512
Duloxetine Hcl	26	$360
Bupropion Hcl SrBupropion Hcl	20	$335
Clozapine	13	$309
Buspirone Hcl	16	$279
Lamotrigine	13	$253
Sertraline Hcl	29	$218
Lithium Carbonate ErLithium Carbonate	16	$150
Clonazepam	19	$142

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other general practice in Rochester

Frank LamarRochester$34K
James LamarRochester$32K
Joseph DidonatoRochester$19K
Mark HochmanHicksville$5.1M
David RiceEast Amherst$1.2M
Brian JacksonUtica$477K
Ronnie MyersNew York$464K
Ira LangsteinWhite Plains$422K
Benedict MiragliaMount Kisco$378K
Michael MashaalRoslyn$262K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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