Dara Lankaranian, MD
Hospitalist · Somers Point, NJNPI 1740417385
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 56 payments — averaging $16.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$196
- AbbVie$167
- Philips North America LLC$166
- Johnson & Johnson$144
- Pfizer$110
- Merck$44
- plus $89 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$915100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 11 | $196 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $167 |
| Philips North America LLC | 10 | $166 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $144 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $110 |
| Merck | 3 | $44 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $30 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $28 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $17 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$915 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Potassium Chloride | 11 | $172 |
| CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil | 14 | $107 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 13 | $104 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 14 | $94 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 15 | $29 |
| Prednisone | 11 | $27 |
| Furosemide | 13 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in Somers Point
- Mohammed UsmanToms River$33K
- Justin BaptistAtlantic City$23K
- Jhonsua Jimenez AriasMorristown$15K
- Ahmed HassaninMorristown$15K
- Jeffrey WeissPassaic$12K
- Mohamed BakrAtlantic City$8K
- Jason NehmadNeptune$7K
- Rebecca ZweiflerMorristown$6K
- Scott KaufmanMount Holly$6K
- Kunal ParmarPompton Plains$6K
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.