Ruth Brandow
Internal Medicine · Troy, NYNPI 1568509800
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 133 payments — averaging $14.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$356
- AbbVie$272
- Novo Nordisk$254
- Lilly USA, LLC$161
- AstraZeneca$128
- Pfizer$109
- plus $592 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$121%
- Food & beverage$1,86299%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 23 | $356 |
| AbbVie | 29 | $272 |
| Novo Nordisk | 17 | $254 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 12 | $161 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $128 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $109 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $95 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $89 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $86 |
| Amgen | 4 | $70 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Merck | 4 | $53 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $46 |
| Novartis | 2 | $31 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,873 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.
Other internal medicine in Troy
- 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
- David DoveEast Hampton$12.3M
- Robert CupeloEast Syracuse$10.6M
- Patrick ReaganRochester$9.4M
- Sally LauNew York$8.4M
- Angela BrancheRochester$7.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.