Medical Doctor Program year 2021 Reported 2019–2021 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Sarah Atkinson

General Practice Rochester, NY Medical Doctor

NPI 1285859306 CMS profile 58186

885 Winton Rd S, Finger Lakes Clinical Research, Rochester, NY 14618

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General payments

$10,261

17 records reported · program years 2019–2021

Research payments

$881,467

Paid to them · 199 records reported · program years 2019–2021

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$4,169,997 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2024

Through program year 2021, Sarah Atkinson of Rochester, NY is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $10,261 across 17 general payments and $881,467 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $4,169,997 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of General Practice profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2021 Research $16,774 5
2020 General $7,019 7
2020 Research $538,843 78
2019 General $3,242 10
2019 Research $325,850 116

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Sarah Atkinson
  • General Practice median
  • Middle half of General Practice
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Sarah Atkinson were reported at $0. Among 4,774 General Practice profiles paid that year, the median was $106 and the middle half received between $35 and $292.

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Year Sarah Atkinson General Practice median Middle half National median
2019 $3,242 $107 $37–$285 $163
2020 $7,019 $75 $25–$213 $114
2021 $0 $93 $30–$272 $132
2022 $0 $103 $36–$279 $149
2023 $0 $106 $34–$276 $160
2024 $0 $114 $39–$290 $164
2025 $0 $106 $35–$292 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2021
  1. Alkermes, Inc. $7,019 7 payments
  2. Pfizer Inc. $1,524 4 payments
  3. F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG $1,100 1 payment
  4. Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $618 5 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2021
  1. Consulting Fee $7,400 2 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,901 7 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $960 8 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2021
  1. GEODON $1,524 4 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2021
  1. Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. $443,993 24 payments
  2. ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc $370,485 160 payments
  3. Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $56,281 11 payments
  4. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $10,708 4 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 17 drugs

Part D claims

302

Median for General Practice: 1,105

Drug cost

$52,532

Median for General Practice: $48,734

Branded share of claims

40.7%

Median for General Practice: 17.1%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Fanapt Iloperidone Brand 13 $28,708
Trintellix Vortioxetine Hydrobromide Brand 14 $13,782
Paliperidone Er Paliperidone Brand 12 $3,951
Bupropion Xl Bupropion Hcl Brand 37 $1,897
Aripiprazole Generic 24 $964
Trazodone Hcl Generic 12 $525
Dextroamphetamine-Amphet Er Dextroamphetamine/Amphetamine Brand 11 $512
Duloxetine Hcl Generic 26 $360
Bupropion Hcl Sr Bupropion Hcl Brand 20 $335
Clozapine Generic 13 $309

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 17 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 7,210 Part D prescribers listed as General Practice; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Records

216 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2021

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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