Kaushar Desai
Family · Glastonbury, CTNPI 1497353999
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 326 payments — averaging $12.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- AbbVie$701
- Amgen$694
- Novartis$332
- UCB, Inc.$278
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$277
- plus $661 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,81290%
- Education$40910%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 161 | $1,279 |
| AbbVie | 47 | $701 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 38 | $694 |
| Novartis | 24 | $332 |
| UCB, Inc. | 17 | $278 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 11 | $277 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $140 |
| GSK | 4 | $85 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $81 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 3 | $79 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 3 | $79 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $40 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $33 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Otezla$112
How this compares
$4,221 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,596 family providers in Connecticut.
Other family in Glastonbury
- Heather CiosGlastonbury$15K
- Alina SchneiderGlastonbury$14K
- Debbie GouldGlastonbury$11K
- Sandra CriscuoloGlastonbury$11K
- Deborah HackettGlastonbury$9K
- Elisha ChristiansonWaterbury$371K
- Kathryn TierneyNew Britain$140K
- Jennifer SilvaSouth Windsor$91K
- Carli WillardEnfield$74K
- Erin MartinMilford$70K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.