Steven Kang
Blood Banking & Transfusion Medicine · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1912189051
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $107,871 of the $147,726 with a category attached, or 73.0%. Shire North American Group Inc accounts for 68.1% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $100,642 and has fallen 94.5% since, to $5,578 in 2025. Among blood banking & transfusion medicine 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 366 payments — averaging $403.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Shire North American Group Inc$101K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$40K
- CSL Behring$5K
- Gilead$2K
- Octapharma USA, Inc.$464
- Imperative Care, Inc$72
- plus $81 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,8135%
- Speaking & faculty fees$107,87173%
- Travel & lodging$26,01718%
- Food & beverage$6,9735%
- Education$530%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shire North American Group Inc | 248 | $100,554 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 94 | $39,728 |
| CSL Behring | 10 | $5,226 |
| Gilead | 1 | $1,600 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 10 | $464 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $72 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $53 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $28 |
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
$147,726 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 23 blood banking & transfusion medicine providers in New York.
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Other blood banking & transfusion medicine in Brooklyn
- Sarah VossoughiBrooklyn$154
- Michael BelloneBrooklyn$86
- Kumaranayagam BalakrishnanBrooklyn$46
- Allan LiBrooklyn$23
- Eric GehrieRye$32K
- Jessica JacobsonNew York$16K
- Jason ChiangWestbury$4K
- Robert DesimoneNew York$4K
- Beth ShazNew York$3K
- Bal GiljaElmhurst$1K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.