Michael Samach
Gastroenterology · Morristown, NJNPI 1861508566
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.5%), speaking fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. AbbVie accounts for 63.1% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,242 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $21 in 2024.
Across 513 payments — averaging $21.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$7K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$534
- Pfizer$449
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$325
- Gilead$285
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,50040%
- Food & beverage$6,62959%
- Education$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 183 | $7,031 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 111 | $1,303 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 49 | $534 |
| Pfizer | 24 | $449 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 21 | $325 |
| Gilead | 30 | $285 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 27 | $255 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 22 | $253 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 11 | $152 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 7 | $145 |
| Merck | 6 | $92 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $71 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 3 | $39 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $21 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$11,145 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 701 gastroenterology providers in New Jersey.
Other gastroenterology in Morristown
- Carl WallachMorristown$41K
- Vinod RustgiNew Brunswick$431K
- Zamir BrelviNewark$391K
- Adam ElfantMount Laurel$385K
- Devjit NayarHoboken$258K
- Lea ChenNew Brunswick$185K
- Alexander PerelmanWest Orange$160K
- Barry KaufmanEgg Harbor Township$157K
- Anish ShethPrinceton$151K
- Ramesh GuptaFair Lawn$143K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.