Zev Brandel, MD
Family Medicine · Baldwin, NYNPI 1083658801
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 113 payments — averaging $26.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$1K
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$589
- AstraZeneca$263
- Abbott$150
- Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc$125
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$122
- plus $764 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,014100%
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 | 30 | $1,002 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 33 | $589 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 10 | $263 |
| Abbott | 1 | $150 |
| Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $122 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $114 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 5 | $100 |
| GSK | 4 | $70 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $52 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $52 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Novartis | 2 | $30 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $20 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $20 |
| Renalytix AI, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Vistapharm, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $14 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, 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
$3,014 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,321 family 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 108 | $71,679 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 25 | $20,736 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 14 | $6,642 |
| Omega-3 Acid Ethyl Esters | 11 | $595 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 30 | $561 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 37 | $549 |
| Omeprazole | 14 | $504 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 20 | $458 |
| Ezetimibe | 15 | $433 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 15 | $225 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 11 | $210 |
| Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl | 15 | $179 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 14 | $112 |
| Lisinopril | 14 | $92 |
| Metformin Hcl | 13 | $90 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Baldwin
- Matthew DavisRochester$76.6M
- Frank EderBinghamton$46.2M
- Suchet PatelEndwell$23.3M
- James WildGowanda$2.2M
- Michael FedericoEndwell$1.4M
- Donald BrautigamWestfield$1.3M
- Kimberly DesantisEndwell$1.1M
- Michael TugetmanHartsdale$1M
- Richard RuhOrchard Park$769K
- Eric LorraineEndwell$740K
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.