Has Alexander Schlachterman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $188,152 in general payments to Alexander Schlachterman, MD across 403 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Alexander Schlachterman, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Alexander Schlachterman, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Alexander Schlachterman, MD

Gastroenterology · Philadelphia, PANPI 1174837421

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (31.9%), education and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 31.8% of the total. Among gastroenterology clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$188,152in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 403 payments — averaging $466.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$60K
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$56K
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation$32K
Pentax Of America, Inc.$9K
Lumendi LLC$8K
Conmed Corporation$7K
plus $16K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$34,57618%
Speaking & faculty fees$59,96532%
Travel & lodging$33,38718%
Food & beverage$11,2666%
Education$48,95926%

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
Boston Scientific	126	$59,822
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas	111	$56,459
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation	87	$31,667
Pentax Of America, Inc.	10	$9,107
Lumendi LLC	10	$8,296
Conmed Corporation	7	$7,216
Olympus Corporation	6	$4,845
Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc.	10	$3,040
Laborie Medical Technologies Corp.	2	$3,003
ERBE USA Inc	3	$2,180
Olympus America Inc.	14	$772
Covidien LP	4	$546
Medtronic	3	$469
Apollo Endosurgery US Inc	5	$335
Creo Medical Inc.	1	$171
Cook Medical LLC	2	$170
Medrobotics Inc.	1	$39
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	1	$16

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.

Olympus$59,236
Single Use Electrosurgical Knife KD-655$57,458
DISPOSABLE DISTAL ATTACHMENT$54,039
FUJIFILM$29,981
OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$14,862
ORISE$14,387
HEMOSTASIS CLIP$6,556
DILUMEN ENDOLUMENAL INTERVENTIONAL PLATFORM, 103 CM$5,702
EXALT Model D$4,489
GENERAL - THERAPIES$2,147
VIO3 Erbejet2$2,000
DILUMEN ENDOLUMENAL INTERVENTIONAL PLATFORM$1,958
Resolution 360 Clip$1,266
DiLumen$585
EndoFlip$509
CONMED BILIARY$502
CONMED DILATION$283
eyeMax$258
EVIS EXERA III BRONCHOVIDEOSCOPE$246
ProdiGI$178

How this compares

$188,152 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 935 gastroenterology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$114,869

Medicare patients

251

Services billed

510

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Omeprazole	71	$1,392
Pantoprazole Sodium	36	$788
FamotidineFamotidine/Pf	25	$266

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other gastroenterology in Philadelphia

Michael KochmanPhiladelphia$361K
Gary LichtensteinPhiladelphia$342K
Gregory GinsbergPhiladelphia$234K
Neilanjan NandiPhiladelphia$209K
David LichtensteinPhiladelphia$192K
Kuchikala ReddyPhiladelphia$182K
James LewisPhiladelphia$175K
Beth GardnerPhiladelphia$122K
Gary FalkPhiladelphia$121K
Adam EhrlichPhiladelphia$117K

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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.

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