Norman Sfeir
Pulmonary Disease · Buffalo, NYNPI 1972567741
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 319 payments — averaging $18.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$1K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
- AstraZeneca$851
- Abbott$405
- Amgen$242
- Johnson & Johnson$226
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,799100%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 92 | $1,471 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 56 | $1,076 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 52 | $851 |
| Abbott | 8 | $405 |
| Amgen | 13 | $242 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $226 |
| Bayer | 11 | $189 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 9 | $157 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 6 | $147 |
| Philips North America LLC | 8 | $125 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 6 | $105 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 6 | $104 |
| Sanofi | 5 | $103 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 5 | $100 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $76 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $66 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $23 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Circassia Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Gilead | 1 | $17 |
| Inogen, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $12 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, 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.
How this compares
$5,811 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,115 pulmonary disease providers in New York.
Other pulmonary disease in Buffalo
- Carla FrederickBuffalo$972K
- Nashat RabadiBuffalo$613K
- M Jeffery MadorBuffalo$408K
- Linda RogersNew York$7.1M
- Maria PadillaNew York$3.6M
- R WhiteRochester$3.1M
- Juan WisniveskyNew York$3M
- Bushra MinaNew York$2.5M
- Robert KanerNew York$2.3M
- Negin HajizadehGreenport$2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.