Mitchell Lester
Allergy · Norwalk, CTNPI 1881785673
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 109 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 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $908 and has fallen 94.5% since, to $50 in 2025.
Across 109 payments — averaging $21.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$322
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$257
- Novartis$185
- CSL Behring$182
- Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.$150
- Alk-abello, Inc$141
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,376100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 20 | $322 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 12 | $257 |
| Novartis | 10 | $185 |
| CSL Behring | 8 | $182 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $150 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 2 | $141 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 6 | $141 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $123 |
| GSK | 7 | $113 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $105 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 2 | $102 |
| Merck | 4 | $71 |
| Covis Pharma GmbH | 3 | $63 |
| Biocryst US Sales Co., LLC | 1 | $59 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 3 | $55 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $52 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $41 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Amgen | 2 | $33 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| USWM, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $14 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 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.
- PALFORZIA$108
How this compares
Too few allergy providers in Connecticutto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other allergy in Norwalk
- Christopher RandolphWaterbury$269K
- Doron BerWaterford$14K
- Cristina VoDanbury$4K
- Pamela KwittkenMilford$3K
- Lawrence ScheerWaterbury$855
- Jeffrey MillerTorrington$822
- Hillary Hernandez-TrujilloHartford$501
- Marshall GrodofskyWest Hartford$179
- Michael KrallHartford$142
- Kevin HuntHamden$37
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.