Charles Romero
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 94 payments — averaging $83.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Imperative Care, Inc$2K
- Contego Medical, Inc$1K
- Penumbra, Inc.$950
- Philips North America LLC$945
- Medtronic$922
- Rapid Medical Ltd$816
- plus $1K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,42131%
- Food & beverage$5,46569%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Imperative Care, Inc | 9 | $1,741 |
| Contego Medical, Inc | 13 | $1,084 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 18 | $950 |
| Philips North America LLC | 7 | $945 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 13 | $922 |
| Rapid Medical Ltd | 5 | $816 |
| Stryker | 8 | $396 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 5 | $246 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $178 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 1 | $168 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $162 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 6 | $136 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $21 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 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.
- ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$1,565
- Azurion 7 B20$766
- Pipeline$708
- TIGERTRIEVER 17 REVASCULARIZATION DEVICE$661
- COMANECI 17$661
- Penumbra System$331
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$210
- ERIC RETRIEVAL DEVICE$168
- STENT$168
- Mynx Venous VCD$131
- ZOOM REPERFUSION CATHETER$123
- SPINEJACK$113
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$105
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$105
- CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$102
How this compares
$7,886 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 941 neurology 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 95 | $1,155 |
| Levetiracetam | 17 | $999 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurology in Erie
- Trevor PhinneyErie$955K
- David WeismanAbington$9.3M
- Amit Bar-OrPhiladelphia$7.7M
- Thomas LeistPhiladelphia$5.8M
- Jan DrappatzPittsburgh$4M
- Lauren ElmanPhiladelphia$3.3M
- David IrwinPhiladelphia$2.5M
- Paula ClemensPittsburgh$2.1M
- Anoopum GuptaPittsburgh$2M
- Daniel KremensPhiladelphia$1.9M
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.