Iradj Sharim
Internal Medicine · Trenton, NJNPI 1790739423
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 138 payments — averaging $35.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$839
- AstraZeneca$586
- Amgen$532
- GSK$373
- Novo Nordisk$330
- Lilly USA, LLC$267
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,843100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 18 | $839 |
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $586 |
| Amgen | 9 | $532 |
| GSK | 14 | $373 |
| Novo Nordisk | 23 | $330 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $267 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $261 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $257 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 9 | $227 |
| Novartis | 8 | $208 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $189 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $154 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $130 |
| Valeritas, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $89 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $85 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 5 | $71 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Daiichi Sankyo 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
$4,843 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.
Other internal medicine in Trenton
- Jane RohlfTrenton$2.7M
- Sanjiv SharmaToms River$33.9M
- Jeffrey CarsonNew Brunswick$13.8M
- Samer HaddadHamilton$6.8M
- Magdy ShenoudaWall$3.7M
- Samar HameedLivingston$3.6M
- Mohammed NisarEdison$2.6M
- Michael CasserNew Milford$2.2M
- Sumitha ReddyHamilton$2M
- Helio PedroNewark$1.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.