Valery Vera-Connolly, MD
Family Medicine · Verona, NJNPI 1548622368
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 192 payments — averaging $16.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$559
- Novo Nordisk$473
- AbbVie$406
- Bayer$239
- Boehringer Ingelheim$220
- Lilly USA, LLC$209
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,154100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 34 | $559 |
| Novo Nordisk | 35 | $473 |
| AbbVie | 36 | $406 |
| Bayer | 12 | $239 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $220 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 13 | $209 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $198 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $158 |
| Exact Sciences | 7 | $143 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 5 | $112 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| GSK | 4 | $70 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $64 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $35 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- JARDIANCE$123
How this compares
$3,154 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,084 family medicine providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 14 | $1,110 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 70 | $973 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 31 | $571 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 50 | $427 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 27 | $386 |
| Lisinopril | 28 | $382 |
| Methocarbamol | 17 | $343 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 41 | $289 |
| Famotidine | 31 | $254 |
| Finasteride | 17 | $245 |
| Omeprazole | 13 | $234 |
| Cefdinir | 11 | $233 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 11 | $163 |
| Losartan Potassium | 25 | $123 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 26 | $116 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Verona
- 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.