Ellis Tobin
Infectious Disease · Albany, NYNPI 1306922166
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 244 payments — averaging $24.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Viiv Healthcare Company$2K
- Merck$1K
- AbbVie$862
- Johnson & Johnson$420
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$384
- Theratechnologies Inc.$303
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,48893%
- Education$4327%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 67 | $1,615 |
| Merck | 45 | $1,036 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 36 | $862 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 22 | $420 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 10 | $384 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 12 | $303 |
| Shionogi Inc | 9 | $215 |
| Janssen Products, LP | 2 | $184 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 7 | $131 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $119 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 4 | $110 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $90 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 4 | $86 |
| Gilead | 4 | $83 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 2 | $77 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $57 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $28 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Vyera Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| GSK | 1 | $13 |
| Pfizer | 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.
- DOVATO$125
How this compares
$5,920 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 799 infectious disease providers in New York.
Other infectious disease in Albany
- Philip PalmieriAlbany$205K
- Wafaa El SadrNew York$119.1M
- Judith AbergNew York$14.8M
- Stephen ThomasSyracuse$6.2M
- Edward WalshRochester$3.9M
- Magdalena SobieszczykNew York$2.9M
- Kristen MarksNew York$2.8M
- Genovefa PapanicolaouNew York$2.7M
- Catherine SmallValhalla$2.7M
- Ann FalseyRochester$1.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.