Samantha Cummins
Physician Assistant · East Meadow, NYNPI 1942844329
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 186 payments — averaging $18.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$930
- Johnson & Johnson$404
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$371
- Alkermes, Inc.$308
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$219
- Bausch Health US, LLC$199
- plus $921 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,30599%
- Education$471%
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) | 29 | $930 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 38 | $404 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 20 | $371 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 16 | $308 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 20 | $219 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 10 | $199 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 9 | $132 |
| Eisai Inc. | 7 | $121 |
| Indivior Inc. | 6 | $107 |
| Merck | 5 | $87 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $83 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $75 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 4 | $54 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $20 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $13 |
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
$3,352 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 11,358 physician assistant providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Paliperidone ErPaliperidone | 12 | $808 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in East Meadow
- Henry YuBronx$1M
- Michael AsbachAmherst$962K
- Janelle BunceJamestown$565K
- Kristyl Cuenca-SiskoNew York$478K
- Melissa WhiteGarden City$320K
- Lawrence HermanHolbrook$315K
- Kaitlyn NelsonBrooklyn$289K
- Sari KatzGarden City$271K
- Julius NwosuBronx$256K
- Cameron KiserNew York$225K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.