Girish Sharma
Internal Medicine · Vernon, CTNPI 1285603324
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 121 payments — averaging $26.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$299
- AstraZeneca$280
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$264
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$208
- Pfizer$189
- plus $886 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,238100%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 51 | $1,124 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $299 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $280 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 11 | $264 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $208 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $189 |
| Amgen | 2 | $123 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $118 |
| Novartis | 7 | $116 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $112 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $96 |
| Biogen | 4 | $68 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $64 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Bayer | 1 | $22 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $13 |
| Abbott | 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.
How this compares
$3,250 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,067 internal medicine providers in Connecticut.
Other internal medicine in Vernon
- Richard OrrisVernon$22K
- 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.