Karen Coblens
Internal Medicine · Danbury, CTNPI 1063479848
Payments from drug & device makers
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 85th percentile of 2,067 internal medicine providers in Connecticut.
Other internal medicine in Danbury
- Joseph SouferWaterbury$21.5M
- David RadinStamford$7M
- Steven RyderWestport$3.9M
- Nancy BrownNew Haven$2.8M
- Charles MontanoCromwell$2.8M
- Arthur DecillisMadison$1M
- Michelle MallitzTrumbull$971K
- Allen HellerWoodbridge$758K
- Gary BlickNorwalk$717K
- Margaret ChusteckaHamden$652K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.