Has Lawrence Schwartz received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $268,840 in general payments to Lawrence Schwartz across 164 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Lawrence Schwartz did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Lawrence Schwartz come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Lawrence Schwartz

Diagnostic Radiology · New York, NYNPI 1376523746

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $266,131 of the $268,840 with a category attached, or 99.0%. Merck accounts for 69.7% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $82,851 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $272 in 2025. Among diagnostic radiology clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$268,840in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 164 payments — averaging $1639.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Merck$187K
Boehringer Ingelheim$69K
AbbVie$7K
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$2K
Eisai Inc.$1K
Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$1K
plus $1K from 2 others

$5,184,970in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $87,881 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$4.9M
Janssen Research & Development, LLC$100K
Regeneron$100K
Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$28K
AbbVie$14K
EMD Serono, Inc.$4K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$266,13199%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,1390%
Travel & lodging$5110%
Food & beverage$1,0590%

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
Merck	141	$187,422
Boehringer Ingelheim	3	$68,705
AbbVie(2 entities)	3	$7,071
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$2,147
Eisai Inc.	2	$1,337
Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH	3	$1,139
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	8	$1,005
Abbott	1	$14

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

$268,840 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,530 diagnostic radiology providers in New York.

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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.

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