Victoria Forte
Hematology & Oncology · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1144548736
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (37.7%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 44 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gilead at 42.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,070, 2.1 times the $2,433 reported in 2019.
Across 186 payments — averaging $63.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$5K
- Merck$2K
- Blueprint Medicines Corporation$827
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$681
- Pfizer$317
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$261
- plus $2K from 38 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $16,780 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.
- Sanofi$17K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,28028%
- Travel & lodging$3,96034%
- Food & beverage$4,45238%
- Education$1221%
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.
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
$11,813 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 967 hematology & oncology providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Anastrozole | 11 | $104 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hematology & oncology in Brooklyn
- Perry CookBrooklyn$803K
- Ilya BlokhBrooklyn$220K
- Yiwu HuangBrooklyn$220K
- Songchuan GuoBrooklyn$129K
- Michael SchusterNew York$1.6M
- Charles SawyersNew York$1.6M
- Manuel Hidalgo-MedinaNew York$1.4M
- Francis ArenaLake Success$1M
- Sanjeev JainEast Patchogue$971K
- Ross LevineNew York$968K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.