Lee Schwartzberg, MD
Medical Oncology · Reno, NVNPI 1306878228
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (50.7%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 53 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.4%.
Across 647 payments — averaging $1252.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$149K
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$143K
- Cornerstone Specialty Network LLC$64K
- Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc$63K
- Seagen Inc.$44K
- Merck$36K
- plus $312K from 47 others
Across 404 payments — averaging $14,670 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.
- Novartis$2.7M
- Pfizer$1.5M
- Merck$603K
- Genentech, Inc.$526K
- Puma Biotechnology, Inc.$80K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$69K
- plus $401K from 16 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $16,667 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Cornerstone Specialty Network LLC$50K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$411,32551%
- Speaking & faculty fees$312,10339%
- Travel & lodging$50,8076%
- Food & beverage$15,0472%
- Education$18,7402%
- Other$2,4980%
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.
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
Too few medical oncology providers in Nevadato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VitrakviLarotrectinib Sulfate | 29 | $882,576 |
| IbrancePalbociclib | 11 | $193,152 |
| Anastrozole | 233 | $6,804 |
| Tamoxifen Citrate | 115 | $3,496 |
| Letrozole | 71 | $1,615 |
| Etodolac | 13 | $531 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 20 | $438 |
| Lidocaine-PrilocaineLidocaine/Prilocaine | 23 | $295 |
| Prochlorperazine Maleate | 25 | $285 |
| Dexamethasone | 33 | $260 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $149 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 31 | $122 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $83 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 13 | $46 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BayerVitrakvi | $18,489 | $882,57629 claims |
| PfizerIbrance | $34,224 | $193,15211 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. There are too few medical oncology providers in Nevadaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other medical oncology in Reno
- Katharine ThomasReno$54K
- Parth SampatReno$59
- Fadi BraitehLas Vegas$2.7M
- Brian VicunaLas Vegas$107K
- Sandra LombardoLas Vegas$14K
- Ghulam KashefHenderson$11K
- Dina TackCarson City$6K
- Steven YatesLas Vegas$3K
- Deepa MocherlaLas Vegas$3K
- Claire HilesLas Vegas$918
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.