Howard Grill
Internal Medicine · Freeport, NYNPI 1225027550
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,274 of the $3,652 with a category attached, or 89.7%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Novo Nordisk at 24.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,098 and has fallen 83.6% since, to $180 in 2023.
Across 147 payments — averaging $24.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$886
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$562
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$414
- Boehringer Ingelheim$340
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$338
- AstraZeneca$246
- plus $867 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$37210%
- Food & beverage$3,27490%
- Education$60%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 32 | $886 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 19 | $562 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $414 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 19 | $340 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 19 | $338 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $246 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 13 | $210 |
| Amgen | 1 | $123 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $117 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $98 |
| Merck | 5 | $82 |
| GSK | 3 | $41 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $25 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Novartis | 1 | $20 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Vistapharm, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $13 |
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
$3,652 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.
Other internal medicine in Freeport
- 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
- James UnderbergNew York$953K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.