Medical Toxicology in New York
12 providers, $13,751 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
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 medical toxicology clinicians in New York
Across 10 medical toxicology clinicians in New York who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $389,703 in total — an average of $38,970 each, of which $38,970 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
- 1Timothy WiegandRochester$8,537
- 2Meghan SpyresNew York$4,275
- 3Kalpana PatelBuffalo$281
- 4Shamima SomiBronx$251
- 5Arie FrancisStony Brook$159
- 6Rachel ShivelyManhasset$114
- 7Dean OlsenBronx$84
- 8Adam BermanNew Hyde Park$36
- 9Rama RaoNew York$14
- 10David LawrenceStony Brook$0
- 11Susi VassalloNew York$0
- 12Larissa LaskowskiNew York$0