Prathibha Kumar
Internal Medicine · Hamden, CTNPI 1043268691
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,342 of the $1,524 with a category attached, or 88.1%. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,181 and has fallen 87.2% since, to $151 in 2023.
Across 75 payments — averaging $20.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$205
- Merck$180
- AbbVie$169
- Sanofi$110
- Amgen$104
- Pfizer$74
- plus $681 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$18212%
- Food & beverage$1,34288%
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 | 5 | $205 |
| Merck | 14 | $180 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $169 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $110 |
| Amgen | 6 | $104 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $74 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $72 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $72 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $71 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $68 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| GSK | 3 | $55 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $51 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $37 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Bayer | 1 | $27 |
| Lupin Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $11 |
| Novartis | 1 | $11 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., 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.
How this compares
$1,524 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,067 internal medicine providers in Connecticut.
Other internal medicine in Hamden
- 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
- John PriceGlastonbury$188K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.