Desmond Aroke
Internal Medicine · Newark, NJNPI 1386271641
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.2%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abbott accounts for 72.0% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,149, more than ten times the $265 reported in 2023. Among internal medicine clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 75 payments — averaging $84.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$5K
- Abiomed$483
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$270
- Cvrx, Inc.$182
- Amgen$167
- Heartflow, Inc.$124
- plus $543 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,41638%
- Food & beverage$3,29952%
- Education$60510%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 35 | $4,550 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $483 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $270 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $182 |
| Amgen | 4 | $167 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 2 | $124 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $89 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $79 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Novartis | 3 | $53 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $37 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $34 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $32 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $29 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $28 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $25 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Stryker | 1 | $18 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- GALLANT$1,546
- MERLIN@HOME$1,201
- ENSITE$677
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$227
- Barostim Neo System$147
- Repatha$122
- Impella$100
How this compares
$6,319 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.
Other internal medicine in Newark
- Helio PedroNewark$116K
- David ShulkinMorristown$1.7M
- Howard UdermanLakewood$955K
- Darshi SunderamEast Orange$530K
- Annika DrongeEmerson$401K
- Stephen MarcellaNew Brunswick$331K
- Viju VijaysadanKinnelon$325K
- Mark MonaneWoodcliff Lake$268K
- Martin BedigianLivingston$240K
- Rameck HuntPlainsboro$217K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.