Serdar Cetinbas
Physician Assistant · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1720196504
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.5% of the total across 421 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 34 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,917, 3.2 times the $605 reported in 2021. Among physician assistant 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.
Across 421 payments — averaging $17.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$1K
- AbbVie$760
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$691
- MDD US Operations, LLC$651
- Lilly USA, LLC$487
- Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC$337
- plus $3K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$230%
- Food & beverage$7,19397%
- Education$1632%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 66 | $1,312 |
| AbbVie | 46 | $760 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 73 | $691 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 20 | $651 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 25 | $487 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 23 | $337 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 25 | $316 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 21 | $304 |
| Novartis | 20 | $298 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 14 | $250 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 11 | $216 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 11 | $210 |
| Abbott | 4 | $205 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $162 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 7 | $161 |
| Eisai Inc. | 6 | $112 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 4 | $108 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $98 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $91 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $83 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $80 |
| TG Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| GE HealthCare | 3 | $47 |
| Biogen | 2 | $45 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $36 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $32 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $31 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Vertex | 1 | $22 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- GOCOVRI$229
- INFINITY$138
- Austedo XR$125
- AUSTEDO$113
How this compares
$7,379 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 11,358 physician assistant providers in New York.
Other physician assistant in Brooklyn
- Kaitlyn NelsonBrooklyn$289K
- Melissa VelezBrooklyn$68K
- Steven KongBrooklyn$66K
- Hong ChenBrooklyn$57K
- Lindsey AxtBrooklyn$52K
- Gregory CelestinBrooklyn$41K
- Henry YuBronx$1M
- Michael AsbachAmherst$962K
- Janelle BunceJamestown$565K
- Kristyl Cuenca-SiskoNew York$478K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.