Michelle Lerner
Medical · Danbury, CTNPI 1326172321
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 201 payments — averaging $20.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$630
- AbbVie$596
- Lilly USA, LLC$430
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$315
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$221
- Almatica Pharma LLC$217
- plus $2K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,032100%
- Education$10%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 34 | $630 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 29 | $596 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 21 | $430 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 12 | $315 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 12 | $221 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 14 | $217 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 10 | $172 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $155 |
| Eisai Inc. | 7 | $142 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 6 | $137 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 5 | $120 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $120 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 4 | $57 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $43 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Biogen | 1 | $26 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $25 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 1 | $12 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- LYBALVI$480
How this compares
$4,033 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 592 medical providers in Connecticut.
Other medical in Danbury
- Shilpa DesaiStamford$215K
- Gregory RauNew Haven$211K
- John JasinskiNorwalk$185K
- Brianna PaesanoStamford$153K
- Debra SullivanDerby$100K
- Ryan DonovanNew Haven$75K
- Jonica PagnuccoWaterbury$32K
- Alyssa GreenleafSouthington$26K
- Mark VolpeSuffield$21K
- Josephine DiazSuffield$20K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.