Christopher Vandenberg, MD
Hospitalist · Atlantic City, NJNPI 1952890923
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 26 payments — averaging $20.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$144
- Viatris Specialty LLC$102
- Pfizer$91
- AbbVie$57
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$54
- Johnson & Johnson$41
- plus $53 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$544100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 8 | $144 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 2 | $102 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $91 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $57 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $54 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $41 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $38 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$544 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 567 hospitalist providers in New Jersey.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 20 | $148 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 12 | $140 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 28 | $135 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 18 | $110 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 12 | $93 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 19 | $74 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 14 | $64 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $57 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 14 | $45 |
| Carvedilol | 11 | $43 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 15 | $30 |
| Furosemide | 12 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in Atlantic City
- Justin BaptistAtlantic City$23K
- Mohamed BakrAtlantic City$8K
- Urmil PatelAtlantic City$2K
- Javid IqbalAtlantic City$2K
- Mary OnwukaAtlantic City$1K
- Mohammed UsmanToms River$33K
- Jhonsua Jimenez AriasMorristown$15K
- Ahmed HassaninMorristown$15K
- Jeffrey WeissPassaic$12K
- Jason NehmadNeptune$7K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.