Lawrence Weiner, MD
Internal Medicine · Niles, ILNPI 1508816901
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 293 payments — averaging $18.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- AstraZeneca$740
- AbbVie$526
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$293
- Boehringer Ingelheim$292
- Amgen$266
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$601%
- Food & beverage$5,34699%
- Education$150%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 68 | $1,218 |
| AstraZeneca | 41 | $740 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 31 | $526 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 16 | $293 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 15 | $292 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 14 | $266 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 11 | $238 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 11 | $229 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $197 |
| GSK | 7 | $189 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 8 | $175 |
| Novartis | 9 | $166 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $134 |
| Merck | 8 | $117 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 5 | $92 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $85 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $73 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $25 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $13 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$5,421 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 125 | $174,913 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 51 | $92,454 |
| EliquisApixaban | 67 | $90,242 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 44 | $61,387 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 43 | $56,962 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 48 | $56,899 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 17 | $23,540 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 14 | $17,891 |
| Victoza 3-PakLiraglutide | 13 | $17,389 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 14 | $15,187 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 14 | $12,593 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 11 | $11,425 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 617 | $6,349 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 240 | $5,082 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 35 | $4,938 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $740 | $174,913125 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $1,218 | $92,45451 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $134 | $90,24267 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $292 | $61,38744 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $197 | $56,96243 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $166 | $56,89948 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $117 | $23,54017 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $229 | $17,89114 claims |
| GSKAnoro Ellipta | $189 | $11,42511 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $526 | $3,30745 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.
Other internal medicine in Niles
- Dennis LevinsonChicago$25.3M
- Mary BrownRockford$16M
- Andrew BartlettChampaign$4.1M
- Danny SugimotoChicago$4M
- Peter O DonnellChicago$3.9M
- Daniel CatenacciChicago$3.5M
- Jeffrey GeohasEvanston$2.3M
- Patricia WalshChicago$2.1M
- Merle DiamondChicago$1.7M
- Yoko MomoyamaLombard$1.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.