Deborah Goldstein
Infectious Disease · Washington, DCNPI 1457502460
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $946 of the $1,350 with a category attached, or 70.1%. Merck accounts for 98.6% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest.
Across 13 payments — averaging $103.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$1K
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$18
Across 261 payments — averaging $2707.54 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Gilead$224K
- Merck$223K
- Viiv Healthcare Company$205K
- Amgen$27K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$23K
- GSK$5K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$94670%
- Food & beverage$40430%
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 | 12 | $1,332 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- MK-8591A$851
How this compares
$1,350 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 74 infectious disease providers in District of Columbia.
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- Gebeyehu TeferiWashington$25K
- Jose BordonWashington$12K
- Rebecca KumarWashington$12K
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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.