Christopher Gottschalk
Medical · Amherst, NYNPI 1750194759
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $5,800 of the $7,708 with a category attached, or 75.2%. Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. accounts for 83.7% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among medical clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 71 payments — averaging $108.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$6K
- Lilly USA, LLC$290
- Pfizer$156
- Novo Nordisk$149
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$113
- Boehringer Ingelheim$90
- plus $461 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,80075%
- Travel & lodging$4856%
- Food & beverage$1,42318%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $6,451 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 13 | $290 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $156 |
| Novo Nordisk | 9 | $149 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 5 | $113 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $90 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $79 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $73 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $37 |
| GSK | 2 | $34 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Merck | 1 | $22 |
| Insulet Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $20 |
| Bayer | 1 | $17 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $16 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $15 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $10 |
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
$7,708 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,395 medical providers in New York.
Other medical in Amherst
- Karly KozlowskiAmherst$13K
- Rebecca EllwoodAlbany$565K
- Denisse SerranoCortlandt Manor$255K
- Michele Kissous-HuntNew York$246K
- Laura MaroldoNew York$126K
- Carl ClarkeBrooklyn$116K
- Maureen ThyneNew York$109K
- Gina FriesRochester$106K
- Ilse StraussSmithtown$87K
- Helen AdamsNew York$87K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.