Jodie Epstein
Adult Health · Paramus, NJNPI 1821288598
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 84 payments — averaging $18.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$222
- Merck$160
- Johnson & Johnson$143
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$135
- Amgen$80
- Novo Nordisk$80
- plus $699 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,519100%
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 | 14 | $222 |
| Merck | 10 | $160 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $143 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 3 | $135 |
| Amgen | 6 | $80 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $80 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $76 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $71 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Abbott | 2 | $43 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $42 |
| GSK | 3 | $39 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $34 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $16 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, 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.
- REZDIFFRA$105
How this compares
$1,519 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,135 adult health providers in New Jersey.
Other adult health in Paramus
- Jennifer PorcoParamus$10K
- June HalperHackensack$458K
- Kara SaggiomoCamden$127K
- Entela AhmetiPomona$75K
- Phyllis McKiernanHackensack$72K
- Denise ForceMiddletown$71K
- Kathleen SenecaHillsborough$64K
- Diane AndresenNorthvale$60K
- Dana BeenstockFreehold$51K
- Phyllis DudaCamden$46K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.