Has Steven Parnes, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,242 in general payments to Steven Parnes, MD across 42 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 Steven Parnes, 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 Steven Parnes, 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.

Steven Parnes, MD

Otolaryngology · Albany, NYNPI 1508866849

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,242in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 42 payments — averaging $77.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$860
Acclarent, Inc$788
Intersect ENT, Inc.$599
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$230
Medtronic$210
Optinose US, Inc.$181
plus $375 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$80625%
Food & beverage$2,43575%

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.

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
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$860
Acclarent, Inc	10	$788
Intersect ENT, Inc.	13	$599
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$230
Medtronic	4	$210
Optinose US, Inc.	5	$181
GSK	1	$118
Stryker	2	$73
Axogen	1	$72
Cochlear Americas	1	$58
Johnson & Johnson	1	$53

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.

Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$806
PROPEL$138
Acclarent Aera$137
Inspira Air$137
RELIEVA SPINPLUS NAV$137
TruDi Probe$137
SINUVA$134
Xhance$126
TruDi Nav Cable$124
NUCALA$118
INSPIRA AIR Balloon Dilation System$102

How this compares

$3,242 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 701 otolaryngology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$89,092

Medicare patients

343

Services billed

1,559

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
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	67	$9,581
Mometasone Furoate	90	$4,313
Ipratropium Bromide	104	$3,175
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	38	$1,972
Fluticasone Propionate	122	$1,792
Azelastine-FluticasoneAzelastine/Fluticasone	23	$1,750
Azelastine Hcl	27	$609
Famotidine	17	$509
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	13	$476
Alprazolam	29	$435
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	28	$396
Amitriptyline Hcl	12	$341
Montelukast Sodium	33	$311
Meclizine Hcl	23	$248
Mupirocin	38	$235

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Dennis KrausNew York$524K
Ashutosh KackerNew York$387K
Lawrence LustigNew York$383K
Brett MilesNew York$368K
Alfred Marc IloretaNew York$342K

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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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