Joseph Robinson
Cardiovascular Disease · Washington, DCNPI 1497717458
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.1% of the total across 105 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 105 payments — averaging $22.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$424
- Abbott$334
- Merck$259
- Novo Nordisk$214
- Pfizer$188
- Lilly USA, LLC$180
- plus $810 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,36198%
- Education$462%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 18 | $424 |
| Abbott | 3 | $334 |
| Merck | 14 | $259 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $214 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $188 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $180 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $175 |
| Amgen | 8 | $157 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $135 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $68 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $50 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| GSK | 1 | $29 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $26 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $19 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Assurity Pacemaker$174
- Confirm Rx$137
- ENTRESTO$122
How this compares
$2,407 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 105 cardiovascular disease providers in District of Columbia.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.