Epilepsy in New York
21 providers, $424,854 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,815.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays epilepsy clinicians in New York
Across 19 epilepsy clinicians in New York who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,180,951 in total — an average of $62,155 each, of which $62,155 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Patricia DuganNew York$97,140
- 2Robert GloverBuffalo$87,535
- 3Daniel FriedmanNew York$66,439
- 4Sheryl HautBronx$61,307
- 5Christopher ElderNew York$41,027
- 6Benjamin BlondStony Brook$40,222
- 7Andres Rodriguez-RuizBrooklyn$8,533
- 8Ping LiBuffalo$6,328
- 9Mill EtienneSuffern$3,489
- 10Susanna O'KulaBrooklyn$2,749
- 11Alexus LudwigBuffalo$1,815
- 12Hai ChenNew York$1,487
- 13Priya PurushothamanNew York$1,469
- 14Calvin YuOceanside$1,360
- 15David AharonoffOceanside$909
- 16Neil PatelBronx$819
- 17Robert McInnisNew York$801
- 18Kyung KimNew York$556
- 19Saroj KunnakkatBronx$378
- 20Ahmel ArshadBay Shore$368
- 21Sneha BagchiValhalla$122