Abigail Gotsch, MD
Surgery · Allentown, PANPI 1669909602
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $887 of the $1,080 with a category attached, or 82.1%. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $451 and has fallen 92.2% since, to $35 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $1,143.
Across 26 payments — averaging $41.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$231
- CSL Behring$214
- Smith+Nephew$154
- Davol Inc.$125
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$103
- Merck$100
- plus $153 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$88782%
- Education$19318%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 3 | $231 |
| CSL Behring | 4 | $214 |
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $154 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Merck | 1 | $100 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $55 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $34 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $33 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,080 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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.
Other surgery in Allentown
- Maher El ChaarAllentown$667K
- Paul CesanekAllentown$469K
- Maneesh AilawadiAllentown$40K
- Andy KiserPittsburgh$1M
- Glenn SteeleDanville$698K
- George EidPittsburgh$619K
- Clark GerhartPlains$317K
- Irina YermilovPlymouth Meeting$315K
- Eric PauliHershey$202K
- Ariel AballayPittsburgh$198K
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.