Has Margarita Nunez received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,173 in general payments to Margarita Nunez across 27 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 Margarita Nunez 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 Margarita Nunez 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.

Margarita Nunez

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Staten Island, NYNPI 1194701938

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,424 of the $3,173 with a category attached, or 76.4%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH at 39.0% of the total.

$3,173in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $117.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$1K
Johnson & Johnson$467
Amarin Pharma, Inc.$373
Novo Nordisk$355
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$245
Novartis$125
plus $369 from 3 others

$1,982,877in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 162 payments — averaging $12,240 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.

Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$789K
Vertex$453K
Regeneron$334K
AbbVie$240K
AstraZeneca$135K
Genentech, Inc.$33K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$74924%
Food & beverage$2,42476%

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
Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH	11	$1,239
Johnson & Johnson	4	$467
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	3	$373
Novo Nordisk	3	$355
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$245
Novartis	1	$125
Bayer	1	$125
Merck	1	$124
Amgen	1	$121

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

$3,173 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 872 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in New York.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Memantine Hcl ErMemantine Hcl	12	$411

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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