Helen Zhou
Internal Medicine · Newark, NJNPI 1538746839
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 82 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 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 82 payments — averaging $22.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$319
- Novo Nordisk$248
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$217
- AbbVie$212
- Lilly USA, LLC$127
- Pfizer$111
- plus $602 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,834100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 13 | $319 |
| Novo Nordisk | 11 | $248 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 11 | $217 |
| AbbVie | 9 | $212 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $127 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $111 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 4 | $89 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $85 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $78 |
| Amgen | 3 | $68 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $53 |
| Bayer | 2 | $48 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Orexo US, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Echosens North America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$1,834 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.
Other internal medicine in Newark
- Helio PedroNewark$116K
- David ShulkinMorristown$1.7M
- Howard UdermanLakewood$955K
- Darshi SunderamEast Orange$530K
- Annika DrongeEmerson$401K
- Stephen MarcellaNew Brunswick$331K
- Viju VijaysadanKinnelon$325K
- Mark MonaneWoodcliff Lake$268K
- Martin BedigianLivingston$240K
- Rameck HuntPlainsboro$217K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.