Richard Lewkowicz
Internal Medicine · New York, NYNPI 1134319015
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 82 payments — averaging $109.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$1K
- AbbVie$789
- Lundbeck LLC$625
- MDD US Operations, LLC$533
- Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$517
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$506
- plus $5K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$8,950100%
- Education$170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 10 | $1,211 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $789 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 5 | $625 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 4 | $533 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $517 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $506 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $492 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $379 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $375 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $368 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $363 |
| Abbott | 2 | $245 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $193 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $169 |
| Bayer | 1 | $155 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $141 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $127 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $125 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $125 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Amgen | 1 | $125 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $122 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $119 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $117 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $76 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $64 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $50 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $32 |
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
$8,967 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisone | 11 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in New York
- Helena YuNew York$50.9M
- Neha KordeNew York$21.2M
- Karen AutioNew York$18.5M
- Ingo MellinghoffNew York$16.1M
- Gopakumar IyerNew York$12.4M
- Sally LauNew York$8.4M
- Maria RubinsteinNew York$6.3M
- Dana RathkopfNew York$6M
- Eytan SteinNew York$5.8M
- James GreenwaldNew York$4.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.