Jeffrey Lefkowitz
Gastroenterology · Fair Lawn, NJNPI 1790757870
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 157 payments — averaging $19.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$851
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$494
- AbbVie$375
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$208
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$156
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$131
- plus $811 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,93197%
- Education$943%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 55 | $851 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 27 | $494 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 13 | $375 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 15 | $208 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $156 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 4 | $131 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $125 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $79 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $71 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $63 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $51 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Merck | 2 | $29 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $28 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $25 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $14 |
| GSK | 1 | $14 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$3,025 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 701 gastroenterology providers in New Jersey.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 11 | $265 |
| Metformin Hcl | 21 | $158 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 11 | $133 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Fair Lawn
- Ramesh GuptaFair Lawn$143K
- Kiran RaoSparta$1.3M
- Adekunle AdeotiIrvington$1.2M
- Carl WallachMorristown$766K
- Vinod RustgiNew Brunswick$697K
- Arvind TrindadeNew Brunswick$652K
- Barry KaufmanEgg Harbor Township$595K
- Promila BanerjeeStratford$522K
- Neil NagariaToms River$442K
- Zamir BrelviNewark$408K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.