Lisa Merlin
Neurology · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1619954518
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 95 payments — averaging $57.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biogen$953
- Eisai Inc.$737
- UCB, Inc.$521
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$486
- Argenx US, Inc.$471
- Amgen$388
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,491100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biogen | 10 | $953 |
| Eisai Inc. | 8 | $737 |
| UCB, Inc. | 21 | $521 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $486 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 7 | $471 |
| Amgen | 4 | $388 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 6 | $332 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 5 | $331 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $315 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 5 | $170 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 6 | $145 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $95 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $78 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $60 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 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.
How this compares
$5,491 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,623 neurology providers in New York.
Other neurology in Brooklyn
- Idan SharonBrooklyn$2.1M
- Christian GrommesNew York$9.9M
- Ilya KisterNew York$9.5M
- E DorseyNew York$8.5M
- Lauren SchaffNew York$8.2M
- Richard HolubAlbany$6.3M
- Martin SadowskiNew York$5.4M
- Lawrence HonigNew York$4.9M
- Laszlo MechtlerAmherst$4.3M
- Bennett MyersAmherst$3.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.