Robert Bross
Family Medicine · Columbus, NJNPI 1538142054
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 150 payments — averaging $12.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$422
- Lilly USA, LLC$238
- Novo Nordisk$202
- Merck$126
- Johnson & Johnson$113
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$87
- plus $731 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,920100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 38 | $422 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 18 | $238 |
| Novo Nordisk | 15 | $202 |
| Merck | 9 | $126 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $113 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $87 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 6 | $84 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $73 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $72 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 5 | $69 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $60 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $59 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| GSK | 2 | $28 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $28 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $13 |
| Circassia Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,920 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,084 family medicine providers in New Jersey.
Other family medicine in Columbus
- Howard HassmanClementon$47.1M
- Matthew HongNorth Cape May$15.3M
- Rubaba HussainClark$3.8M
- Gaurang BrahmbhattHoboken$2.6M
- Michael DobrowClifton$2.1M
- Mikhail VarshavskiChatham$1.4M
- Amit BhalodiaCamden$707K
- Jennifer AmicoNew Brunswick$627K
- Janet ColeFar Hills$466K
- Matthew PintoMarlton$239K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.