Ritu Sharma, MD
Internal Medicine · Haskell, NJNPI 1205008414
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 84 payments — averaging $16.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$312
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$208
- Merck$184
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$145
- Exact Sciences$110
- Gilead$68
- plus $339 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,34699%
- Education$201%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 20 | $312 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 13 | $208 |
| Merck | 12 | $184 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 9 | $145 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $110 |
| Gilead | 5 | $68 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $58 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $55 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $37 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $33 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 2 | $30 |
| Biogen | 1 | $27 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Amgen | 1 | $19 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $18 |
| Bavarian Nordic A/s | 1 | $17 |
| GSK | 1 | $14 |
| Aytu Biopharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,365 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 49 | $566 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 38 | $433 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 13 | $392 |
| Metformin Hcl | 27 | $226 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 13 | $197 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 22 | $189 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 12 | $151 |
| Lisinopril | 15 | $124 |
| Losartan Potassium | 12 | $117 |
| Simvastatin | 11 | $102 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 14 | $67 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 13 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Haskell
- 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.