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

ALBERT M DEFABRITUS

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Nephrology

NPI
1629057583
CMS profile
255451
Location
NEW YORK, NY

General Payments · PY2018–2019

$482.56

  • Reported across 28 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2019

$163.61

8 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

PY2019 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $163.61 8

By paying entity

PY2019 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Amgen Inc. $70.69 3
Relypsa, Inc. $41.86 2
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $18.49 1
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $17.42 1
Acerta Pharma LLC $15.15 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $318.95 20
PY2019 $163.61 8

Payment records · PY2019 (8)

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

Program year 2019 2018 Record-level detail is published for PY2019; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Amgen Inc. $25.03 03/22/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662157459 CMS
Amgen Inc. $19.62 07/12/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662157461 CMS
Amgen Inc. $26.04 08/30/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662157463 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $15.15 03/29/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 685818149 CMS
OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $17.42 04/19/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 707772763 CMS
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $18.49 04/12/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 687375471 CMS
Relypsa, Inc. $19.96 05/17/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 683913997 CMS
Relypsa, Inc. $21.90 06/28/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 683916891 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
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2019_P01232026_01102026.csv

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