Ekaterina Balash
Physician Assistant · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1922572403
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 252 payments — averaging $26.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi$1K
- Merck$770
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$769
- Boehringer Ingelheim$654
- Insmed, Inc.$399
- Verona Pharma, Inc.$349
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,54696%
- Education$2474%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi | 36 | $1,374 |
| Merck | 39 | $770 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 21 | $769 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 23 | $654 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 10 | $399 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $349 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 13 | $310 |
| AstraZeneca | 13 | $262 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 10 | $256 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 11 | $227 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 13 | $173 |
| Novartis | 6 | $169 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $140 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $138 |
| GSK | 5 | $119 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $116 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 5 | $116 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $85 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $69 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $55 |
| Medicomp Inc | 1 | $31 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $26 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $23 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- DUPIXENT$120
How this compares
$6,793 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 11,358 physician assistant providers in New York.
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.