Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

ALVIN T HERSHFELD

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Family Medicine

NPI
1255483574
CMS profile
147641
Location
HOWARD BEACH, NY

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$1,189.10

  • Reported across 61 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$295.84

14 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $295.84 14

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Acerta Pharma LLC $168.62 8
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $60.66 3
Novo Nordisk AS $48.49 2
Exact Sciences Corporation $18.07 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $191.81 12
PY2019 $139.15 8
PY2020 $270.78 14
PY2021 $30.52 2
PY2022 $86.26 4
PY2023 $174.74 7
PY2024 $295.84 14

Payment records · PY2024 (14)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $20.93 01/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104340190 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $26.91 02/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104722641 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $20.76 03/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104321830 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $21.86 04/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104585778 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $15.95 06/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104758994 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $23.92 07/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105585528 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $19.58 08/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104447169 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $18.71 10/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105757903 CMS
Exact Sciences Corporation $18.07 05/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1114701296 CMS
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $15.73 04/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1116591945 CMS
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $19.85 05/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1116302939 CMS
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $25.08 12/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1116654059 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $24.91 04/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096976631 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $23.58 09/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096917888 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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