Has Sonali Sethi, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $387,591 in general payments to Sonali Sethi, MD across 439 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 Sonali Sethi, 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 Sonali Sethi, 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.

Sonali Sethi, MD

Pulmonary Disease · New York, NYNPI 1053519058

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.9%), speaking fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 31 manufacturers reported payments, led by Noah Medical Corporation at 54.0% of the total. Among pulmonary disease 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.

$387,591in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 439 payments — averaging $882.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Noah Medical Corporation$209K
Ambu A/s$64K
US Endoscopy$40K
Olympus America Inc.$14K
Gyrus ACMI, Inc.$12K
Steris Corporation$9K
plus $38K from 25 others

$34,529in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $34,529 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.

Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH$35K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$185,80548%
Speaking & faculty fees$89,84923%
Travel & lodging$38,31210%
Food & beverage$22,0816%
Education$51,50013%
Gifts$430%

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
Noah Medical Corporation	155	$209,381
Ambu A/s	11	$64,139
US Endoscopy	15	$40,159
Olympus America Inc.	21	$14,427
Gyrus ACMI, Inc.	13	$12,310
Steris Corporation	41	$8,792
Intuitive Surgical	19	$8,099
Olympus Corporation	12	$7,712
Johnson & Johnson	42	$5,926
Body Vision Medical Inc.	21	$3,806
Boston Scientific	34	$2,818
Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated	2	$2,481
Pulmonx Corporation	7	$1,530
Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc	13	$1,241
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	8	$1,088
Olympus Medical Systems Corporation	2	$990
Covidien LP	6	$519
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.	1	$440
Atrium Medical Corporation	1	$400
Serpex Medical Inc	2	$250
Broncus Medical	1	$177
Philips North America LLC	2	$171
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$163
Auris Health, Inc.	1	$121
Medtronic	2	$114
Cook Medical LLC	1	$93
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$84
Acclarent, Inc	1	$81
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas	1	$44
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	1	$20
Ambu 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.

GALAXY$159,888
TRUFREEZE$47,995
Single-Use flexible Video Bronchoscope$11,416
Da Vinci Surgical System$4,837
EVES EUS ULTRASOUND BRONCHOFIBERVIDEOSCOPE$4,620
ViziShot 2 FLEX$4,620
Monarch Platform$3,627
ION$3,000
LungVision$2,947
Cook Medical Captura Forceps$2,481
Pulmonx Endobronchial Valve EBV$1,312
GENERAL PULMONARY$1,254
iCAST$1,222
MONARCH$1,220
SPiN Vision Video Processor$1,205
EVIS EXERA III BRONCHOVIDEOSCOPE$983
Spiration Valve System$983
ALIYA SYSTEM$906
superDimension$434
EXALT Model D$381

How this compares

$387,591 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,115 pulmonary disease providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$40,433

Medicare patients

118

Services billed

356

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.

Other pulmonary disease in New York

Charles PowellNew York$654K
Bisher AkilNew York$480K
Johnathan RaskinNew York$338K
Monica KraftNew York$247K
Jamie BessichNew York$226K
Ronald CrystalNew York$213K
Michael NiedermanNew York$176K
Wilfredo TalaveraNew York$145K
Josanna Rodriguez-LopezNew York$128K
Kenneth BergerNew York$126K

See the full list for New York →

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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