Alfred Lerner
Internal Medicine · Mountain View, CANPI 1447337399
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 217 payments — averaging $19.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$770
- Amgen$439
- Lilly USA, LLC$363
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$341
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$270
- Pfizer$259
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,137100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 58 | $770 |
| Amgen | 17 | $439 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 20 | $363 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 18 | $341 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 16 | $270 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $259 |
| AstraZeneca | 13 | $234 |
| Gilead | 3 | $201 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $158 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $148 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 5 | $128 |
| Eisai Inc. | 5 | $116 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $109 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $107 |
| Merck | 4 | $94 |
| GSK | 4 | $85 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $66 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $42 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $21 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$4,137 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 11 | $172 |
| Losartan Potassium | 12 | $167 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 11 | $148 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 36 | $144 |
| Lisinopril | 11 | $130 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Mountain View
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Joel NeutelTustin$34.9M
- Donald BrandonSan Diego$34M
- William TownerLos Angeles$27.4M
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
- Masoud AzizadNorthridge$21.1M
- Helen StaceyWalnut Creek$20.4M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$15.1M
- Zeid KayaliColton$14.2M
- Alexandra DrakakiSanta Monica$14.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.