Melvin Polkow
Pulmonary Disease · Hackensack, NJNPI 1972677169
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 125 payments — averaging $12.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$371
- Boehringer Ingelheim$346
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$141
- Grifols USA, LLC$105
- Shire North American Group Inc$84
- Genentech USA, Inc.$77
- plus $499 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,57897%
- Education$443%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 34 | $371 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 27 | $346 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $141 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 8 | $105 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 6 | $84 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 5 | $77 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $74 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 5 | $74 |
| Novartis | 4 | $53 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $50 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 3 | $43 |
| Merck | 3 | $40 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $27 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $27 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $25 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,622 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 472 pulmonary disease providers in New Jersey.
Other pulmonary disease in Hackensack
- Ronaldo GoHackensack$563K
- Deborah GossHackensack$558K
- Emanuele SantomauroHackensack$420K
- Nadeem AliHackensack$133K
- Keith BrennerHackensack$42K
- John VillaHackensack$15K
- Reynold PanettieriNew Brunswick$2.5M
- Vinay SikandToms River$1.8M
- Stanley FielMorristown$1.3M
- Joseph HoffmanPark Ridge$1.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.