Wei-Chu Lai
Internal Medicine · New York, NYNPI 1407111776
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $10,218 of the $10,218 with a category attached, or 100.0%. AstraZeneca accounts for 87.2% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Among internal medicine clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 5 payments — averaging $2043.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$9K
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$1K
Across 30 payments — averaging $87,192 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.
- Amgen$2.5M
- AbbVie$54K
- Bristol Myers Squibb$22K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,218100%
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 | 4 | $8,905 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $1,313 |
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
$10,218 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.
Other internal medicine in New York
- Stephen SaletanNew York$2.6M
- Ziad AliNew York$2M
- Ricky HsuNew York$1M
- James UnderbergNew York$953K
- Terry PlasseNew York$883K
- Krisczar BungayNew York$554K
- Eytan SteinNew York$496K
- Larry NeumanNew York$457K
- Wuhua JingNew York$338K
- Harvey SchneienNew York$334K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.