Karen Coblens
Internal Medicine · Danbury, CTNPI 1063479848
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.1% of the total across 204 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 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,651 and has fallen 77.1% since, to $606 in 2022. Among internal medicine clinicians in CT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 204 payments — averaging $18.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$565
- AstraZeneca$511
- Novo Nordisk$487
- Pfizer$389
- GSK$218
- Merck$214
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,75697%
- Education$1123%
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 | 24 | $565 |
| AstraZeneca | 19 | $511 |
| Novo Nordisk | 30 | $487 |
| Pfizer | 35 | $389 |
| GSK | 12 | $218 |
| Merck | 15 | $214 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $190 |
| Novartis | 5 | $184 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $147 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 6 | $114 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $100 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $100 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $94 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $90 |
| Amgen | 5 | $88 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 6 | $85 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $61 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $59 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Qiagen, LLC | 1 | $16 |
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
$3,868 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,067 internal medicine providers in Connecticut.
Other internal medicine in Danbury
- Steven RyderWestport$3.9M
- Nancy BrownNew Haven$1.6M
- Arthur DecillisMadison$1M
- Charles MontanoCromwell$970K
- Gary BlickNorwalk$683K
- Scott GottliebStamford$508K
- Jeffrey KatzOxford$361K
- Nicholas DainiakBridgeport$352K
- Thomas PellechiGreenwich$196K
- John PriceGlastonbury$188K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.