Dollars for Docs

How Industry Dollars Reach Your Doctors

This database was last updated in October 2019 and should only be used as a historical snapshot. Newer data is available at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Open Payments site.

HOWARD I SCHER
Is This Your Doctor?
Print out this record, along with questions and tips for talking with your physician about payments.
Have you used or plan to use this information? Tell us about it.

HOWARD I SCHER

Listed Specialty: Medical Oncology
1275 YORK AVE, NEW YORK, NY, 10021-6007
Search this name in Dollars for Docs Archive →
Is this you? Do you believe the data contains errors? Click here for information →
Is This Your Doctor?
Print out this record, along with questions and tips for talking with your physician about payments.
Have you used or plan to use this information? Tell us about it.

HOWARD SCHER,
Yearly Payment Breakdown:

2018 Payments At a Glance

12

payments

$2,631

payment total

7

companies paid this doctor

Payment Calendar in 2018

This doctor received a payment on days in 2018.

Each box below represents a single day during the disclosure period. A gray box indicates no payments. The darker the color, the more payments a doctor received that day.

2018

Types of Payments in 2018

Category Payments Payment Value
Travel and Lodging
 4 $1,689
Food and Beverage
 7 $613
Promotional Speaking/Other
 1 $330

Drugs & Devices in 2018

Totals listed below account for all payments from that mention this product. Beginning in 2016, the government began classifying products as drugs, devices, biologics or medical supplies. Below, you will see drugs (drugs and biologics) and devices (devices and medical supplies). If a payment record mentions more than one product, the entire value will be included in each of those products. When no products are listed, they are not included in the list below.

Product Name Product Type Payments†
CELLSEARCH

device

 $1,435
Payments with no listed product

N/A

 $516
XTANDI

drug

 $330
NO PRODUCT DISCUSSED

drug

 $207
ZYTIGA

drug

 $144
† May not add up to dollar total at top of page, since a payment record may not be associated with any product or can be associated with several products.

Payment Details in 2018

When How Much Related To What For From Third Party Payee
Jul 24, 2018 $1,435 CELLSEARCH Travel and Lodging MENARINI SILICON BIOSYSTEMS, INC.
Oct 23, 2018 $330 XTANDI Promotional Speaking/Other PFIZER INC.
Oct 26, 2018 $207 NO PRODUCT DISCUSSED Food and Beverage GENZYME CORPORATION
Oct 24, 2018 $175 No Listed Product Travel and Lodging AMGEN INC.
Oct 25, 2018 $140 No Listed Product Food and Beverage AMGEN INC.
Jan 19, 2018 $125 ZYTIGA Food and Beverage JANSSEN SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS, LLC
Jun 1, 2018 $69 No Listed Product Food and Beverage ASTRAZENECA PHARMACEUTICALS LP
Oct 25, 2018 $56 No Listed Product Travel and Lodging AMGEN INC.
Jun 1, 2018 $27 No Listed Product Food and Beverage ASTRAZENECA PHARMACEUTICALS LP
Jun 1, 2018 $25 No Listed Product Food and Beverage JANSSEN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, LLC
Jun 1, 2018 $23 No Listed Product Travel and Lodging ASTRAZENECA PHARMACEUTICALS LP
Dec 13, 2018 $19 ZYTIGA Food and Beverage JANSSEN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, LLC
See this doctor’s Open Payments page →

Note: We have made some effort to normalize the data and eliminate duplicates, but the data is primarily as it has been reported by the companies to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. To purchase the normalized data, please visit the ProPublica Data Store. If you spot an error, please let us know at [email protected].

This site includes data published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on June 28, 2019.