Walt Sargeant, MD
Internal Medicine · New York, NYNPI 1720081433
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 719 payments — averaging $23.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$3K
- Gilead$2K
- GSK$1K
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- Viiv Healthcare Company$920
- Boehringer Ingelheim$824
- plus $7K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$16,53198%
- Education$3062%
- Other$200%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 141 | $3,075 |
| Gilead | 87 | $2,196 |
| GSK | 54 | $1,327 |
| Novo Nordisk | 50 | $1,193 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 26 | $920 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 42 | $824 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 40 | $814 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 24 | $784 |
| Abbott | 37 | $759 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 33 | $707 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 24 | $695 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 24 | $442 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 15 | $412 |
| Bayer | 17 | $322 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 15 | $267 |
| Exact Sciences | 12 | $255 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $246 |
| Merck | 12 | $243 |
| Amgen | 9 | $242 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $231 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $194 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $118 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 6 | $116 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $95 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $49 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Insulet Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 1 | $19 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 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.
How this compares
$16,857 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala | 29 | $149,720 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 91 | $89,524 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 46 | $76,553 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 44 | $59,326 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 67 | $56,617 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 58 | $52,929 |
| EliquisApixaban | 62 | $52,381 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 40 | $47,398 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 41 | $44,533 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 45 | $33,586 |
| DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam | 14 | $32,643 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 24 | $29,302 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 26 | $25,358 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 20 | $24,052 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 38 | $19,484 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GileadBiktarvy, Descovy | $2,196 | $182,36343 claims |
| Novo NordiskRybelsus, Ozempic | $1,193 | $135,87990 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere | $3,075 | $123,110136 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimTradjenta, Jardiance | $824 | $78,28784 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $1,327 | $59,41378 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $231 | $52,38162 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $243 | $47,39840 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $442 | $44,53341 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $194 | $29,30224 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 95th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.
Other internal medicine in New York
- 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
- Sally LauNew York$8.4M
- Maria RubinsteinNew York$6.3M
- Dana RathkopfNew York$6M
- Eytan SteinNew York$5.8M
- James GreenwaldNew York$4.9M
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.