Ellen Drexler
Neurology · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1952301855
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $3,900 of the $5,915 with a category attached, or 65.9%. AbbVie accounts for 84.8% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,157 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $70 in 2021.
Across 57 payments — averaging $103.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$5K
- Amgen$124
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$107
- Novartis$79
- MDD US Operations, LLC$69
- Biogen$66
- plus $454 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,90066%
- Travel & lodging$71312%
- Food & beverage$1,25921%
- Education$431%
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 | 14 | $5,016 |
| Amgen | 5 | $124 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 7 | $107 |
| Novartis | 4 | $79 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 5 | $69 |
| Biogen | 2 | $66 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Greenwich Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $25 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $25 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $20 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $15 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- UBRELVY$4,733
How this compares
$5,915 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,623 neurology providers in New York.
Other neurology in Brooklyn
- Idan SharonBrooklyn$2.1M
- Karen Blitz ShabbirBrooklyn$220K
- Allan PerelStaten Island$1.7M
- Nicolas SaikaliAmherst$1.5M
- David KreitzmanCommack$1.5M
- Charles ArgoffAlbany$1.2M
- Stephen KriegerNew York$1.1M
- Robert FeketeHawthorne$1M
- Jennifer McVigeAmherst$982K
- Warren SpinnerPort Jefferson Station$791K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.