Michael Chen
Cardiovascular Disease · Edison, NJNPI 1790770642
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 103 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $694 and has fallen 92.1% since, to $55 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for cardiovascular disease clinicians in NJ, where the typical reported total is $2,633.
Across 103 payments — averaging $17.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$382
- AstraZeneca$226
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$223
- Pfizer$180
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$168
- Amgen$122
- plus $536 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,836100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 28 | $382 |
| AstraZeneca | 16 | $226 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 16 | $223 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $180 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $168 |
| Amgen | 9 | $122 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $100 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $100 |
| Novartis | 6 | $79 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $70 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $36 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $31 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $14 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $11 |
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
$1,836 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.
Other cardiovascular disease in Edison
- Marc CohenNewark$762K
- Peter FarrugiaColts Neck$600K
- Felix Dailey-SterlingGuttenberg$568K
- Ramzan ZakirNew Brunswick$342K
- Richard KovachBrowns Mills$300K
- Andrea RussoCamden$293K
- John KostisNew Brunswick$225K
- Dilip ViswanathHaddon Heights$167K
- David PowellSpringfield$162K
- Fadi ChaabanWest Orange$161K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.