RxDoctor Payments Data

Bryce Palchick, MD

Family Medicine · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1548211147

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $11,274 of the $17,565 with a category attached, or 64.2%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Eli Lilly at 50.1% of the total. Among family medicine 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.

$17,565in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 110 payments — averaging $159.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Eli Lilly$9K
  • Chiesi USA, Inc.$4K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$1K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
  • Merck$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$909
  • plus $415 from 6 others
$4,697,264in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 741 payments — averaging $6339.09 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Eli Lilly$2.6M
  • Merck$928K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$398K
  • Pfizer$331K
  • Novo Nordisk AS$258K
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$128K
  • plus $90K from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,70015%
  • Travel & lodging$11,27464%
  • Food & beverage$3,26919%
  • Education$3232%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Eli Lilly31$8,805
Chiesi USA, Inc.5$3,856
Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH11$1,335
Boehringer Ingelheim13$1,208
Merck7$1,037
Novo Nordisk26$909
AbbVie(2 entities)7$143
Lilly USA, LLC4$99
Bayer1$72
Pfizer3$62
GSK1$27
Novartis1$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

$17,565 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,967 family medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$47,639
Medicare patients
258
Services billed
707

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf53$16,704
TrulicityDulaglutide15$15,527
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf51$11,325
EliquisApixaban14$7,464
Chlorpromazine Hcl13$2,055
Boostrix TdapDiphth,pertuss(Acell),tet Vac18$1,261
Atorvastatin Calcium47$351
Gabapentin35$321
Levothyroxine Sodium14$195
Amlodipine Besylate33$176
Potassium Chloride13$173
Irbesartan12$144
Hydrochlorothiazide21$100
Fluticasone Propionate11$98
Carvedilol16$91

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
GSKArexvy, Shingrix$27$28,029104 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$99$15,52715 claims
PfizerEliquis$62$7,46414 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 4,967 family medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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