Stephen Wrzesinski, PhD
Medical Oncology · Albany, NYNPI 1780856971
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $5,168 of the $6,246 with a category attached, or 82.7%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Amgen at 37.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,348 and has fallen 96.9% since, to $135 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for medical oncology clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $4,912.
Across 21 payments — averaging $297.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$2K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$2K
- Novartis$1K
- AstraZeneca$256
- Johnson & Johnson$215
- Merck$115
- plus $262 from 4 others
Across 206 payments — averaging $4402.87 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.
- Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.$274K
- AstraZeneca$182K
- Genentech, Inc.$169K
- Amgen$128K
- Seagen Inc.$65K
- Pfizer$42K
- plus $47K from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,16883%
- Food & beverage$91615%
- Education$1623%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 4 | $2,344 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $2,042 |
| Novartis | 1 | $1,013 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $256 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $215 |
| Merck | 1 | $115 |
| Gilead | 2 | $112 |
| Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 1 | $25 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $15 |
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
$6,246 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 498 medical oncology providers in New York.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ErivedgeVismodegib | 23 | $281,229 |
| TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate | 22 | $273,516 |
| AlecensaAlectinib Hcl | 13 | $232,253 |
| Bexarotene | 13 | $71,885 |
| EliquisApixaban | 68 | $45,937 |
| Imatinib Mesylate | 13 | $760 |
| Dexamethasone | 80 | $606 |
| Tamoxifen Citrate | 14 | $443 |
| Gabapentin | 26 | $388 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 19 | $383 |
| Levetiracetam | 19 | $352 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 30 | $308 |
| Prochlorperazine Maleate | 20 | $269 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 49 | $262 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 16 | $233 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaTagrisso | $256 | $273,51622 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 50th percentile of 498 medical oncology providers in New York.
Other medical oncology in Albany
- Maria TheodoulouAlbany$1.1M
- Craig ThompsonNew York$4.8M
- Andrew SeidmanNew York$1.3M
- Joshua RichterNew York$971K
- Edward GelmannNew York$944K
- Anthony MatoIthaca$909K
- Ehsan MalekBuffalo$826K
- Ghassan Abou-AlfaNew York$825K
- Miguel PeralesNew York$769K
- Komal JhaveriNew York$642K
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.