Eric Liben
Internal Medicine · North Haven, CTNPI 1336183888
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 117 payments — averaging $17.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$240
- Boehringer Ingelheim$230
- Lilly USA, LLC$206
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$206
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$199
- AbbVie$183
- plus $781 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,01599%
- Education$301%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 19 | $240 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 17 | $230 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $206 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 11 | $206 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $199 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $183 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $129 |
| Merck | 7 | $105 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $100 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $96 |
| Eisai Inc. | 5 | $71 |
| GSK | 3 | $59 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $46 |
| Amgen | 2 | $42 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $25 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Novartis | 1 | $22 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
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.
- ClosureFast$100
How this compares
$2,044 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,067 internal medicine providers in Connecticut.
Other internal medicine in North Haven
- Lorenzo GalanteNorth Haven$30K
- Joseph SouferWaterbury$21.5M
- David RadinStamford$7M
- Steven RyderWestport$3.9M
- Nancy BrownNew Haven$2.8M
- Charles MontanoCromwell$2.8M
- Arthur DecillisMadison$1M
- Michelle MallitzTrumbull$971K
- Allen HellerWoodbridge$758K
- Gary BlickNorwalk$717K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.