Steven Dubovsky
Psychiatry · Buffalo, NYNPI 1548301211
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 1 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Livanova USA, Inc.. That places this record below the midpoint for psychiatry clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $125.
Across 1 payment — averaging $19.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Livanova USA, Inc.$20
Across 139 payments — averaging $3037.32 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.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$181K
- AbbVie$85K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$67K
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$54K
- Biogen$23K
- Boehringer Ingelheim RCV GmbH & Co KG$10K
- plus $1K from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$20100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
How this compares
$20 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 3,713 psychiatry providers in New York.
Other psychiatry in Buffalo
- Wendy WeinsteinBuffalo$388K
- Leslie CitromePomona$5.7M
- Sanjay GuptaCheektowaga$1.9M
- Richard PriceMonsey$1.7M
- Adam AshtonAmherst$1.6M
- Christoph CorrellGlen Oaks$1.5M
- Manish ZinzuvadiaNew York$1.3M
- George KruseBronx$1.2M
- Jianping ChenNew York$1.2M
- Horacio CapoteAmherst$1.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.