Andrew Merritt
Family Medicine · Marcellus, NYNPI 1548291248
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 150 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $658 and has fallen 90.3% since, to $64 in 2024.
Across 150 payments — averaging $18.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$477
- GSK$392
- AbbVie$392
- Lilly USA, LLC$260
- Boehringer Ingelheim$249
- AstraZeneca$139
- plus $797 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,707100%
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 | 30 | $477 |
| GSK | 24 | $392 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 18 | $392 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $260 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $249 |
| AstraZeneca | 11 | $139 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $119 |
| Abbott | 4 | $93 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $91 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 5 | $87 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $76 |
| Bayer | 4 | $64 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Merck | 2 | $26 |
| VBI Vaccine (delaware) Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $14 |
| Neotract Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Novartis | 1 | $13 |
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.
- JARDIANCE$118
How this compares
$2,707 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,321 family medicine providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Amlodipine Besylate | 16 | $205 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Marcellus
- Louis BonavitaEast Syracuse$674K
- Martin MahoneyBuffalo$520K
- Scott BrehautClinton$514K
- David St PeterSaratoga Springs$395K
- Matthew PabisNew York$222K
- Rajveer SachdevPomona$211K
- Eric SchnakenbergHalfmoon$190K
- James NorthGlens Falls$186K
- Eric BatesNew York$171K
- Alexander BlinskiNew York$159K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.