Top Internal Medicine in New York by Industry Payments

This analysis ranks the top internal medicine practitioners in New York by total payments received from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, based on CMS Open Payments data. The 20 providers listed here collectively received $28,113,813 over the covered period.

Data source: CMS Open Payments + Medicare Part B Coverage: 2020–2024 Providers analyzed: 20 State: New York
$28,113,813
Total Industry Payments
Across all providers in this analysis
20
Providers Analyzed
With at least one payment on record
$1,199,862
Median Total Payments
Half of providers received more, half received less
Context: Industry payments to physicians are legally required to be disclosed under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Receiving payments does not imply wrongdoing. Payments may reflect consulting expertise, research participation, or speaking engagements. This data is provided to support transparency, not to render clinical judgments.

Top Internal Medicine by Total Industry Payments — New York

CMS Open Payments
# Provider Total Payments Companies Years Active
1
Bruce Berger
Brooklyn, NY
$3,004,295
1 2020–2024
2
Nicholas Robinson
Buffalo, NY
$2,862,052
9 2018–2024
3
Stephen Saletan
New York, NY
$2,508,420
1 2018–2024
4
Cheektowaga, NY
$2,416,317
54 2018–2024
5
New York, NY
$1,763,804
51 2018–2024
6
Albany, NY
$1,709,909
30 2018–2024
7
Anthony Martinez
Buffalo, NY
$1,476,961
27 2018–2024
8
Greenvale, NY
$1,437,417
86 2018–2024
9
New York, NY
$1,393,834
34 2018–2024
10
New York, NY
$1,199,862
23 2018–2024
11
Lake Success, NY
$1,143,741
63 2018–2024
12
New York, NY
$966,955
50 2018–2024
13
Ross Levine
New York, NY
$871,938
18 2018–2024
14
Bayside, NY
$823,256
62 2018–2024
15
New York, NY
$815,854
34 2018–2024
16
Terry Plasse
New York, NY
$793,984
1 2020–2023
17
Calvin Pan
Flushing, NY
$780,864
40 2018–2024
18
Timothy Kanter
Bronx, NY
$728,109
15 2018–2023
19
New York, NY
$708,213
47 2018–2024
20
Sanjay Sethi
Buffalo, NY
$708,026
30 2018–2024

State payment context — Internal Medicine in New York

CMS Open Payments

Beyond the top recipients listed above, 8,953 internal medicine providers in New York have at least one disclosed industry payment, totaling $88,289,782 (2018–2024).

The median internal medicine provider in New York received $428 in total payments, versus a national median of $406 for the same specialty.

Payments to this specialty in New York peaked in 2019, when $15,826,008 changed hands across 125,224 transactions. Gilead Sciences, Inc. has been the largest single payer over the period, and New York leads all New York cities in payment volume for this specialty.

Top companies paying Internal Medicine providers in New York

Company Total payments Providers paid Transactions
Gilead Sciences, Inc. $5,561,483 1,559 23,098
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $4,458,125 3,359 62,513
Novo Nordisk Inc $3,738,508 2,616 52,777
Amgen Inc. $3,209,103 2,501 32,220
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. $3,062,258 42 202
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $2,920,307 21 91
Exelixis Inc. $2,574,925 46 565
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $2,454,325 2,537 40,589

Industry payments to Internal Medicine providers in New York by year

Year Total payments Providers paid Transactions
2018 $13,248,981 5,235 131,165
2019 $15,826,008 5,171 125,224
2020 $8,779,398 4,185 73,729
2021 $10,330,651 4,443 96,361
2022 $12,494,320 4,802 99,585
2023 $13,612,531 5,042 103,338
2024 $13,997,892 5,235 108,799

Top New York cities for Internal Medicine industry payments

City Total payments Providers paid Transactions
New York $34,679,182 1,899 130,952
Brooklyn $8,056,248 1,101 97,843
Buffalo $6,698,916 206 12,467
Bronx $4,681,558 636 40,121
Flushing $2,600,215 215 34,042
Rochester $2,480,285 376 27,064
Cheektowaga $2,464,701 13 6,834
Albany $2,424,301 134 14,473
Methodology Providers filtered to New York-licensed internal medicine practitioners (NPI taxonomy code 207R00000X) with at least one Open Payments record. Payments aggregated across all years and all payment types. Rankings reflect cumulative totals, not annualized figures. Data source: CMS Open Payments, accessed via doctransparency.com database.
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