Brittany Apuzza
Physician Assistant · Whitestone, NYNPI 1780418624
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 76 payments — averaging $22.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$440
- Cequr Corporation$134
- Dexcom, Inc.$117
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$115
- GSK$74
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$64
- plus $774 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,719100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 23 | $440 |
| Cequr Corporation | 1 | $134 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $115 |
| GSK | 4 | $74 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $64 |
| Gilead | 3 | $64 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $63 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $63 |
| Amgen | 3 | $60 |
| Abbott | 3 | $54 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $46 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $46 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 2 | $35 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Medicomp Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $27 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Renalytix AI, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- CeQur Simplicity$134
- QULIPTA$125
- UBRELVY$125
- DEXCOM G7 GSS (161)$117
- DEXCOM STELO GLUCOSE BIOSENSOR$117
How this compares
$1,719 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 11,358 physician assistant providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 13 | $105 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Michael AsbachAmherst$962K
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- Kaitlyn NelsonBrooklyn$289K
- Sari KatzGarden City$271K
- Julius NwosuBronx$256K
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.