Robert Alpern
Nephrology · New Haven, CTNPI 1477785285
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.6%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Among nephrology clinicians in CT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 233 payments — averaging $20,952 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2.8M
- AbbVie$2.1M
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,324,19748%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,468,91230%
- Travel & lodging$766,98316%
- Food & beverage$145,3363%
- Gifts$1,3450%
- Charitable contribution$175,0004%
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.
How this compares
$4,881,773 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 144 nephrology providers in Connecticut.
Other nephrology in New Haven
- Richard FormicaNew Haven$198K
- Stefan SomloNew Haven$111K
- Fredric FinkelsteinNew Haven$70K
- Justin BelcherNew Haven$59K
- Ladan GolestanehNew Haven$54K
- Aldo PeixotoNew Haven$17K
- Ali Abu-AlfaNew Haven$16K
- Lloyd CantleyNew Haven$14K
- Sue ChangNew Haven$9K
- Margaret BiaNew Haven$8K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.