Michelle Mallitz
Internal Medicine · Trumbull, CTNPI 1386656825
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 1 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Rhodes Pharmaceuticals L.p.. That places this record below the midpoint for internal medicine clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $124.
Across 1 payment — averaging $18.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Rhodes Pharmaceuticals L.p.$19
Across 682 payments — averaging $1425.64 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.
- Pfizer$351K
- Novo Nordisk AS$224K
- GSK$176K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$159K
- Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$45K
- Gilead$12K
- plus $5K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$19100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rhodes Pharmaceuticals L.p. | 1 | $19 |
How this compares
$19 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 2,067 internal medicine providers in Connecticut.
Other internal medicine in Trumbull
- Amit MahajanTrumbull$36K
- Steven RyderWestport$3.9M
- Nancy BrownNew Haven$1.6M
- Arthur DecillisMadison$1M
- Charles MontanoCromwell$970K
- Gary BlickNorwalk$683K
- Scott GottliebStamford$508K
- Jeffrey KatzOxford$361K
- Nicholas DainiakBridgeport$352K
- Thomas PellechiGreenwich$196K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.