Jessica Castro
Physician Assistant · Williamsville, NYNPI 1407215247
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 291 payments — averaging $17.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$865
- Novo Nordisk$844
- AbbVie$650
- Lilly USA, LLC$423
- AstraZeneca$296
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$258
- plus $2K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,046100%
- Education$10%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 46 | $865 |
| Novo Nordisk | 57 | $844 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 39 | $650 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 40 | $423 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 12 | $296 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 15 | $258 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 11 | $167 |
| Amgen | 10 | $165 |
| Abbott | 2 | $155 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $132 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 6 | $124 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $122 |
| GSK | 6 | $96 |
| Bayer | 5 | $93 |
| Merck | 4 | $67 |
| Gilead | 3 | $58 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $40 |
| Novartis | 3 | $39 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $26 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $22 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $19 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $16 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Dexcom, 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.
- FreeStyle Libre 2$141
- NUZYRA$125
- Wegovy$122
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$122
- JARDIANCE$120
- Ozempic$117
How this compares
$5,047 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 11,358 physician assistant providers in New York.
Other physician assistant in Williamsville
- Colleen VaccaroWilliamsville$215K
- Henry YuBronx$1M
- Michael AsbachAmherst$962K
- Janelle BunceJamestown$565K
- Kristyl Cuenca-SiskoNew York$478K
- Melissa WhiteGarden City$320K
- Lawrence HermanHolbrook$315K
- Kaitlyn NelsonBrooklyn$289K
- Sari KatzGarden City$271K
- Julius NwosuBronx$256K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.