Alexander Pokov
Internal Medicine · Baltimore, MDNPI 1114931532
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 154 payments — averaging $21.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- AstraZeneca$667
- Novartis$275
- Lilly USA, LLC$247
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$180
- Boehringer Ingelheim$157
- plus $772 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,26298%
- Education$652%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 49 | $1,029 |
| AstraZeneca | 30 | $667 |
| Novartis | 4 | $275 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 14 | $247 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 5 | $180 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 10 | $157 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $129 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $109 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $76 |
| Amgen | 5 | $74 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $72 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 4 | $70 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $38 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Bayer | 1 | $20 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $17 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| GSK | 1 | $17 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 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
$3,327 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.
Other internal medicine in Baltimore
- Kristen MarroneBaltimore$5.6M
- Peta-Gay Jackson BoothBaltimore$3.6M
- Mark YarchoanBaltimore$2.4M
- Gabrielle PrinceBaltimore$2.1M
- Jessica TaoBaltimore$1.2M
- Ana-Maria OrbaiBaltimore$1.1M
- Julie PaikBaltimore$1M
- Christopher MelaniBaltimore$997K
- Ethel WeldBaltimore$792K
- Christian GockeBaltimore$725K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.