Harvey Lerner
Internal Medicine · Smithtown, NYNPI 1598761256
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 106 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 28 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $648 and has fallen 92.6% since, to $48 in 2022.
Across 106 payments — averaging $16.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$238
- Novartis$201
- Merck$139
- Pfizer$132
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$130
- Johnson & Johnson$111
- plus $802 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,753100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 15 | $238 |
| Novartis | 13 | $201 |
| Merck | 9 | $139 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $132 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $130 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $111 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $86 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $85 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $78 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $70 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $69 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $50 |
| Amgen | 2 | $47 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $24 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| G Medical Diagnostic Services, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,753 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.
Other internal medicine in Smithtown
- Michael KaplanSmithtown$612K
- David DoveEast Hampton$12.3M
- Bruce BergerBrooklyn$3.4M
- Nicholas RobinsonBuffalo$2.9M
- Stephen SaletanNew York$2.6M
- Ziad AliNew York$2M
- Scott BeegleAlbany$1.9M
- Anthony MartinezBuffalo$1.6M
- Javier MoralesGreenvale$1.3M
- Ricky HsuNew York$1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.