Margarita Chang
Family · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1841793155
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 125 payments — averaging $39.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lumenis BE Inc$2K
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$1K
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$399
- GSK$158
- Novo Nordisk$158
- Lilly USA, LLC$145
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,881100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $1,701 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 27 | $1,250 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 17 | $399 |
| GSK | 7 | $158 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $158 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $145 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 10 | $145 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $136 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $124 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $119 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 5 | $89 |
| Merck | 5 | $84 |
| Amgen | 4 | $72 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 3 | $42 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| VBI Vaccine (delaware) Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $15 |
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
$4,881 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 8,883 family providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Epolamine | 29 | $22,890 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 48 | $17,768 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 28 | $138 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 19 | $129 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 11 | $113 |
| Losartan Potassium | 19 | $101 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 18 | $98 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 16 | $95 |
| Omeprazole | 14 | $67 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 12 | $38 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Brooklyn
- Seida VelijaBrooklyn$62K
- Ofiong OkonBrooklyn$44K
- Irina FainbergBrooklyn$23K
- Susan WeissBrooklyn$22K
- Razan AlawadhiBrooklyn$21K
- Christina LaoBrooklyn$20K
- Christina NalboneNew York$197K
- Casey GrilloNew York$191K
- Suzanne WilsonIthaca$179K
- Jonathan LesuerSyracuse$172K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.