Usha Sharma
Family Medicine · Fords, NJNPI 1467444935
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.8% of the total across 100 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 100 payments — averaging $37.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$571
- AstraZeneca$400
- Vital Connect, Inc$387
- Johnson & Johnson$376
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$318
- Novo Nordisk$291
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,772100%
- Education$60%
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 | 19 | $571 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $400 |
| Vital Connect, Inc | 4 | $387 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $376 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 26 | $318 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $291 |
| Novartis | 2 | $261 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $250 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $167 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $125 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 8 | $108 |
| Amgen | 1 | $104 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $26 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $21 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $18 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $14 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Daiichi Sankyo 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
$3,778 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,084 family medicine providers in New Jersey.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Amlodipine Besylate | 11 | $69 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Fords
- Mikhail VarshavskiChatham$1.4M
- Janet ColeFar Hills$466K
- Matthew PintoMarlton$239K
- Jennifer CaudleSewell$226K
- Jeffrey LevineNew Brunswick$195K
- Jennifer AmicoNew Brunswick$159K
- Dena LacaraFairfield$122K
- Gaurang BrahmbhattHoboken$89K
- Juan LatorreHoboken$71K
- Sally MravcakJersey City$64K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.