Nicholas Robinson
Internal Medicine · Buffalo, NYNPI 1073925681
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by ownership interests: $2,860,640 of the $2,861,957 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,394,127 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $1,164 in 2024. Among internal medicine clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 18 payments — averaging $158,998 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$2.9M
- Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc.$1K
- Pfizer$52
- AbbVie$48
- AstraZeneca$34
- Boehringer Ingelheim$19
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$9480%
- Food & beverage$3690%
- Ownership interest$2,860,640100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 5 | $2,860,640 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 3 | $1,164 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $52 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $48 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $34 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $19 |
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.
- EXPAREL$2,393,974
- IOVERA SYSTEM$466,667
How this compares
$2,861,957 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.
Other internal medicine in Buffalo
- Anthony MartinezBuffalo$1.6M
- Sanjay SethiBuffalo$733K
- Rosalind SulaimanBuffalo$145K
- David DoveEast Hampton$12.3M
- Bruce BergerBrooklyn$3.4M
- Stephen SaletanNew York$2.6M
- Ziad AliNew York$2M
- Scott BeegleAlbany$1.9M
- Javier MoralesGreenvale$1.3M
- Ricky HsuNew York$1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.