Gary Schwartz
Gastroenterology · Garden City, NYNPI 1598879231
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 122 payments — averaging $22.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$620
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$507
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$476
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$157
- QOL Medical, LLC$146
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$144
- plus $695 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2499%
- Food & beverage$2,48390%
- Education$130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 36 | $620 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 24 | $507 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $476 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $157 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 10 | $146 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 8 | $144 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $143 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $104 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $82 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $13 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Ironwood 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.
- Iovera$364
- mild Device Kit$135
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$104
How this compares
$2,744 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,682 gastroenterology providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 11 | $234 |
| Famotidine | 22 | $149 |
| Omeprazole | 20 | $128 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Garden City
- Michael GerdisYonkers$11.9M
- David HudesmanNew York$3.6M
- Ellen ScherlNew York$2.9M
- Igor GrosmanBrooklyn$2.8M
- Bruce SandsNew York$2.8M
- Arun SwaminathNew York$2.7M
- Sonal KumarNew York$2.3M
- David Carr LockeNew York$2.1M
- Arthur KornbluthNew York$1.9M
- Maya SrivastavaWilliamsville$1.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.