John Bauers
Internal Medicine · Amherst, NYNPI 1942297122
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 60 payments — averaging $15.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$160
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$143
- MDD US Operations, LLC$98
- AbbVie$90
- Orexo US, Inc.$65
- Pfizer$58
- plus $335 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$949100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $160 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 8 | $143 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 6 | $98 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $90 |
| Orexo US, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $58 |
| GSK | 3 | $41 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $39 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $34 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $28 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $14 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$949 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 141 | $5,032 |
| Pregabalin | 46 | $851 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 22 | $778 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 21 | $415 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 28 | $412 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 17 | $291 |
| Gabapentin | 36 | $277 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 25 | $273 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Amherst
- Helena YuNew York$50.9M
- Neha KordeNew York$21.2M
- Karen AutioNew York$18.5M
- Ingo MellinghoffNew York$16.1M
- Gopakumar IyerNew York$12.4M
- David DoveEast Hampton$12.3M
- Robert CupeloEast Syracuse$10.6M
- Patrick ReaganRochester$9.4M
- Sally LauNew York$8.4M
- Angela BrancheRochester$7.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.