Deborah Niman
Physician Assistant · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1336322213
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,605 of the $7,599 with a category attached, or 86.9%. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 27.0% of the total. Among physician assistant clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 466 payments — averaging $16.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
- Novo Nordisk$537
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$386
- AstraZeneca$380
- Lilly USA, LLC$375
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$99213%
- Food & beverage$6,60587%
- Education$20%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 125 | $2,049 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 85 | $1,895 |
| Novo Nordisk | 58 | $537 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 37 | $386 |
| AstraZeneca | 16 | $380 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 30 | $375 |
| Pfizer | 28 | $347 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 20 | $331 |
| Amgen | 16 | $296 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 12 | $240 |
| Abbott | 4 | $89 |
| Exact Sciences | 5 | $87 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 4 | $72 |
| Merck | 3 | $65 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $52 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $52 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| GSK | 2 | $29 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $28 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $25 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $21 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $17 |
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
$7,599 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 11,358 physician assistant providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 11 | $112 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 14 | $63 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Brooklyn
- Kaitlyn NelsonBrooklyn$289K
- Melissa VelezBrooklyn$68K
- Steven KongBrooklyn$66K
- Hong ChenBrooklyn$57K
- Lindsey AxtBrooklyn$52K
- Gregory CelestinBrooklyn$41K
- Henry YuBronx$1M
- Michael AsbachAmherst$962K
- Janelle BunceJamestown$565K
- Kristyl Cuenca-SiskoNew York$478K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.