Low Vision Rehabilitation in New York
20 providers, $23,729 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $368.
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 low vision rehabilitation clinicians in New York
Across 13 low vision rehabilitation clinicians in New York who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,241,237 in total — an average of $95,480 each, of which $95,480 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
- 1Todd PunimMonroe$4,437
- 2Kristin ProtosowRonkonkoma$3,793
- 3Tracy SheedyRed Hook$3,300
- 4Howard FishmanNew Hyde Park$2,967
- 5Jeffrey CalhounWilliamsville$2,693
- 6John RundquistAmherst$1,999
- 7Charles HollanderNew York$1,920
- 8Emily ChuForest Hills$814
- 9Robert ChunNew York$448
- 10Carolyn IhrigFredonia$368
- 11Shandor ZelengerNew York$263
- 12Christine CheaBrooklyn$181
- 13Teresa HalliwellBellmore$166
- 14Steven GivnerHoward Beach$95
- 15Paul WeissbergAstoria$80
- 16James SimmonsBuffalo$61
- 17Rebecca MarinoffNew York$53
- 18Lawrence MillerMonroe$50
- 19William Doan NguyenNew York$28
- 20Michael FischerNorthport$13