Has Steve Flanagan, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,015 in general payments to Steve Flanagan, MD across 24 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 Steve Flanagan, 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 Steve Flanagan, 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.

Steve Flanagan, MD

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation · New York, NYNPI 1962470815

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (53.2%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. accounts for 77.3% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$2,015in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $83.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
Merz North America, Inc.$422
Medtronic$35

$34,140in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $4877.14 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.

Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$22K
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$13K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,07253%
Food & beverage$48724%
Education$45623%

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
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	16	$1,558
Merz North America, Inc.	6	$422
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$35

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.

XEOMIN$246

How this compares

$2,015 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 872 physical medicine and rehabilitation providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$38,653

Medicare patients

169

Services billed

467

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
Methylphenidate ErMethylphenidate Hcl	20	$1,359
Dextroamphetamine-Amphet ErDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine	28	$552
Chlorpromazine Hcl	12	$399
Zolpidem Tartrate ErZolpidem Tartrate	12	$316
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	17	$316
Buspirone Hcl	12	$181
Methylphenidate Hcl	22	$172

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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