James North
Family Medicine · Glens Falls, NYNPI 1568476158
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $142,661 of the $185,745 with a category attached, or 76.8%. Lilly USA, LLC accounts for 63.9% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $60,172 and has fallen 81.6% since, to $11,059 in 2023. Among family medicine clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 336 payments — averaging $552.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$119K
- AbbVie$58K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$4K
- Eli Lilly$4K
- Amgen$332
- Boehringer Ingelheim$133
- plus $454 from 5 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $169.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AbbVie$169
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$22,56312%
- Speaking & faculty fees$142,66177%
- Grants$850%
- Travel & lodging$15,9799%
- Food & beverage$4,4492%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 259 | $118,777 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 57 | $57,692 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $4,390 |
| Eli Lilly | 4 | $3,967 |
| Amgen | 3 | $332 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $133 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $119 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| GSK | 1 | $99 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $64 |
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
$185,745 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,321 family medicine providers in New York.
Other family medicine in Glens Falls
- Louis BonavitaEast Syracuse$674K
- Martin MahoneyBuffalo$520K
- Scott BrehautClinton$514K
- David St PeterSaratoga Springs$395K
- Matthew PabisNew York$222K
- Rajveer SachdevPomona$211K
- Eric SchnakenbergHalfmoon$190K
- Eric BatesNew York$171K
- Alexander BlinskiNew York$159K
- Sean FentonStaten Island$152K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.