Deborah Lozito, DO
Internal Medicine · Hawthorne, NJNPI 1134251945
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 191 payments — averaging $15.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$733
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$412
- AbbVie$229
- Merck$197
- Pfizer$176
- Lilly USA, LLC$127
- plus $1K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,950100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 49 | $733 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 25 | $412 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 16 | $229 |
| Merck | 14 | $197 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $176 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $127 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $120 |
| GSK | 8 | $118 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $82 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $78 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Amgen | 3 | $43 |
| Topcon Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| Abbott | 2 | $35 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $32 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Novartis | 2 | $27 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $26 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Lupin Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| VBI Vaccine (delaware) Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Gilead | 1 | $15 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $14 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$2,950 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 57 | $57,495 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 49 | $46,295 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 26 | $39,542 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 20 | $37,026 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 43 | $36,302 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 23 | $36,242 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 22 | $21,317 |
| JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 16 | $20,057 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 23 | $15,186 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 15 | $14,639 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 12 | $8,108 |
| Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide | 11 | $6,512 |
| Lagevrio (Eua)Molnupiravir | 15 | $5,779 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 28 | $5,554 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 19 | $5,239 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskRybelsus, Ozempic | $733 | $73,32963 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Lagevrio (Eua) | $197 | $72,13180 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $78 | $57,55945 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $176 | $57,49557 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $127 | $39,54226 claims |
| GSKBreo Ellipta, Trelegy Ellipta | $118 | $23,29435 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $15 | $14,63915 claims |
| AstraZenecaSymbicort | $120 | $5,23919 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $229 | $2,33744 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.
Other internal medicine in Hawthorne
- Sanjiv SharmaToms River$33.9M
- Jeffrey CarsonNew Brunswick$13.8M
- Samer HaddadHamilton$6.8M
- Magdy ShenoudaWall$3.7M
- Samar HameedLivingston$3.6M
- Jane RohlfTrenton$2.7M
- Mohammed NisarEdison$2.6M
- Michael CasserNew Milford$2.2M
- Sumitha ReddyHamilton$2M
- Helio PedroNewark$1.8M
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.