Andre Brutus
Infectious Disease · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1760425458
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $258,895 of the $302,607 with a category attached, or 85.6%. Viiv Healthcare Company accounts for 78.8% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $92,017 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $223 in 2024. Among infectious disease clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 419 payments — averaging $722.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Viiv Healthcare Company$239K
- Janssen Products, LP$45K
- Gilead$14K
- Theratechnologies Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- GSK$880
- plus $244 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,0206%
- Speaking & faculty fees$258,89586%
- Travel & lodging$13,2954%
- Food & beverage$13,1474%
- Education$2490%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 252 | $238,531 |
| Janssen Products, LP | 50 | $45,457 |
| Gilead | 35 | $14,163 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 8 | $1,691 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 62 | $1,641 |
| GSK | 9 | $880 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 2 | $181 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $62 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$302,607 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 799 infectious disease providers in New York.
Other infectious disease in Brooklyn
- Joseph PaulBrooklyn$186K
- Marcus SandlingBrooklyn$157K
- Alan SteinBrooklyn$90K
- Jessica YagerBrooklyn$70K
- Yusuf AfacanBrooklyn$19K
- Harish MoorjaniBriarcliff Manor$733K
- Sorana Segal MaurerFlushing$598K
- Sian JonesNew York$406K
- Antonio UrbinaNew York$373K
- David BekhorNew York$358K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.