Heather Meller
Adult Health · Hackensack, NJNPI 1326091802
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 71 payments — averaging $23.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novocure Inc.$643
- Novartis$323
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$85
- AstraZeneca$70
- Boston Scientific$68
- Johnson & Johnson$66
- plus $401 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,57195%
- Education$855%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novocure Inc. | 11 | $643 |
| Novartis | 28 | $323 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $85 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $70 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $68 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $66 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $53 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Immunocore Limited | 1 | $19 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $19 |
| Bayer | 1 | $18 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 1 | $15 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Optune$335
- Optune Gio$151
How this compares
$1,656 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,135 adult health providers in New Jersey.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Levetiracetam | 14 | $375 |
| Dexamethasone | 16 | $167 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult health in Hackensack
- June HalperHackensack$458K
- Phyllis McKiernanHackensack$72K
- Samantha DepadovaHackensack$34K
- Pamela SutherlandHackensack$22K
- Rosemarie WellmanHackensack$9K
- Derrick RodriguezHackensack$8K
- Susan KumkaHackensack$8K
- Caroline KozekHackensack$7K
- Rey PellaHackensack$6K
- Kara SaggiomoCamden$127K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.