Charles Herbst
Rheumatology · Erie, PANPI 1437145737
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 212 payments — averaging $151.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$30K
- Johnson & Johnson$835
- Amgen$335
- Pfizer$249
- GSK$160
- Novartis$142
- plus $298 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$27,61386%
- Travel & lodging$1,5075%
- Food & beverage$3,07910%
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 | 57 | $30,181 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 78 | $835 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 20 | $335 |
| Pfizer | 24 | $249 |
| GSK | 8 | $160 |
| Novartis | 8 | $142 |
| UCB, Inc. | 6 | $102 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $52 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $44 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
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
$32,199 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 351 rheumatology providers in Pennsylvania.
Other rheumatology in Erie
- Alan KivitzDuncansville$27.1M
- Peter MerkelRadnor$6.3M
- Rohit AggarwalPittsburgh$6.2M
- Alexis Ogdie-BeattyPhiladelphia$5.7M
- Jonathan MinerPhiladelphia$3.8M
- Siamak Moghadam-KiaPittsburgh$1.9M
- Frederick MurphyDuncansville$1.2M
- Gregory EmkeyWyomissing$1.2M
- Alan EpsteinPhiladelphia$1.2M
- Lawrence LeventhalHuntingdon Valley$1.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.