Paul Barnickel, MD
Internal Medicine · Eatontown, NJNPI 1669449476
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 313 payments — averaging $13.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$619
- AstraZeneca$541
- Pfizer$455
- Johnson & Johnson$290
- GSK$285
- Boehringer Ingelheim$271
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,23798%
- Education$842%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 46 | $619 |
| AstraZeneca | 35 | $541 |
| Pfizer | 40 | $455 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $290 |
| GSK | 20 | $285 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 19 | $271 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 16 | $245 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 14 | $173 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 14 | $163 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 13 | $158 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 13 | $155 |
| Merck | 11 | $139 |
| Amgen | 10 | $136 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 9 | $101 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $101 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $57 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 4 | $57 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $50 |
| Bayer | 2 | $39 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $32 |
| Abbott | 2 | $29 |
| Novartis | 2 | $28 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $25 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Vivus LLC | 2 | $24 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 1 | $13 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- XARELTO$125
How this compares
$4,320 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| GlumetzaMetformin Hcl | 14 | $42,041 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 26 | $32,520 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 27 | $30,475 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 17 | $19,395 |
| JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 18 | $17,247 |
| LivaloPitavastatin Calcium | 19 | $11,901 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 11 | $10,116 |
| EliquisApixaban | 18 | $9,921 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 14 | $9,283 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 17 | $6,560 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 11 | $6,418 |
| Pitavastatin Calcium | 16 | $5,379 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 64 | $4,927 |
| Colesevelam Hcl | 23 | $4,166 |
| Fluticasone-VilanterolFluticasone/Vilanterol | 12 | $3,870 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet | $139 | $49,76744 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $619 | $30,47527 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $290 | $19,39517 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $285 | $15,84331 claims |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.Livalo | $158 | $11,90119 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimStiolto Respimat | $271 | $10,11611 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $455 | $9,92118 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $245 | $4,92764 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.
Other internal medicine in Eatontown
- Sanjiv SharmaToms River$33.9M
- Jeffrey CarsonNew Brunswick$13.8M
- Samer HaddadHamilton$6.8M
- Magdy ShenoudaWall$3.7M
- Samar HameedLivingston$3.6M
- Jane RohlfTrenton$2.7M
- Mohammed NisarEdison$2.6M
- Michael CasserNew Milford$2.2M
- Sumitha ReddyHamilton$2M
- Helio PedroNewark$1.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.