Elizabeth Zipf
Hospitalist · New York, NYNPI 1306306964
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 87 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,278, more than ten times the $47 reported in 2022. Among hospitalist 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 87 payments — averaging $33.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$684
- Boston Scientific$435
- Abbott$387
- Heartflow, Inc.$305
- Novartis$250
- Boehringer Ingelheim$247
- plus $589 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,898100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 30 | $684 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $435 |
| Abbott | 6 | $387 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 6 | $305 |
| Novartis | 12 | $250 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $247 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $137 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $73 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Amgen | 2 | $48 |
| Medicomp Inc | 1 | $41 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $40 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $34 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $28 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- 2CM PERIPHERAL CUTTING BALLOON$292
- Diamondback Coronary$175
- JARDIANCE$123
- Ultreon$110
- FFRct$103
How this compares
$2,898 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,860 hospitalist providers in New York.
Other hospitalist in New York
- Yair SapersteinNew York$43K
- Timothy TiutanNew York$42K
- Natasha VartakNew York$35K
- Sunil BhattNew York$25K
- Domenico AcciliNew York$21K
- Peter TingNew York$17K
- Amihai RottenstreichNew York$16K
- Matthew McCarthyNew York$12K
- John ChelicoNew York$11K
- Richard LinNew York$11K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.