Harvey Lerner
Internal Medicine · Smithtown, NYNPI 1598761256
Payments from drug & device makers
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
- Helena YuNew York$50.9M
- Neha KordeNew York$21.2M
- Karen AutioNew York$18.5M
- Ingo MellinghoffNew York$16.1M
- Gopakumar IyerNew York$12.4M
- David DoveEast Hampton$12.3M
- Robert CupeloEast Syracuse$10.6M
- Patrick ReaganRochester$9.4M
- Sally LauNew York$8.4M
- Angela BrancheRochester$7.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.