Sam Weissman, MD
Gastroenterology · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1922083880
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 791 payments — averaging $133.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$97K
- Pfizer$2K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Gilead$794
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$529
- plus $2K from 22 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $8437.08 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AbbVie$17K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$70,32086%
- Grants$200%
- Food & beverage$11,24914%
- Education$1970%
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) | 291 | $96,976 |
| Pfizer | 104 | $2,262 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 121 | $1,435 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 83 | $1,320 |
| Gilead | 33 | $794 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 28 | $529 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 10 | $287 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 25 | $284 |
| Merck | 13 | $265 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 14 | $213 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 14 | $204 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 13 | $159 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $130 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $79 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 6 | $72 |
| Shionogi Inc | 4 | $72 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 4 | $70 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $40 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $31 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $18 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $11 |
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
$105,568 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,682 gastroenterology providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RinvoqUpadacitinib | 15 | $121,705 |
| XeljanzTofacitinib Citrate | 14 | $75,791 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 90 | $48,114 |
| ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase | 18 | $38,075 |
| XifaxanRifaximin | 16 | $29,798 |
| CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase | 23 | $20,448 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 13 | $13,754 |
| Sucralfate | 96 | $8,144 |
| Mesalamine ErMesalamine | 29 | $7,910 |
| VoqueznaVonoprazan Fumarate | 11 | $7,901 |
| TrulancePlecanatide | 15 | $7,578 |
| Budesonide ErBudesonide | 14 | $4,974 |
| Mesalamine | 30 | $4,872 |
| SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf | 17 | $2,760 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 113 | $1,692 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieRinvoq, Linzess, Creon | $96,976 | $190,267128 claims |
| PfizerXeljanz | $2,262 | $75,79114 claims |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.Zenpep | $287 | $38,07518 claims |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan, Trulance | $1,435 | $37,37531 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $159 | $13,75413 claims |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Voquezna | $204 | $7,90111 claims |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab | $36 | $2,76017 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 1,682 gastroenterology providers in New York.
Other gastroenterology in Brooklyn
- Igor GrosmanBrooklyn$2.8M
- Alexander BrunBrooklyn$505K
- Kevin TinBrooklyn$369K
- Sam MoskowitzBrooklyn$332K
- Michael GerdisYonkers$11.9M
- David HudesmanNew York$3.6M
- Ellen ScherlNew York$2.9M
- Bruce SandsNew York$2.8M
- Arun SwaminathNew York$2.7M
- Sonal KumarNew York$2.3M
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.