Christopher Paronish, MD
Family Medicine · Carrolltown, PANPI 1053332601
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 907 payments — averaging $14.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$2K
- Amgen$1K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$746
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$719
- Novartis$681
- plus $6K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$13,422100%
- Education$210%
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.
How this compares
$13,443 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,967 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 373 | $493,791 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 168 | $163,800 |
| EliquisApixaban | 126 | $110,509 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 56 | $55,253 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 63 | $52,727 |
| ProliaDenosumab | 32 | $52,196 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 80 | $51,482 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 96 | $50,355 |
| Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 69 | $49,798 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 68 | $48,765 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 64 | $39,004 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 57 | $26,708 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 20 | $23,061 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 24 | $22,861 |
| Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 23 | $22,532 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $2,394 | $493,791373 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Synjardy Xr, Synjardy, Jentadueto | $521 | $266,538325 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $477 | $110,509126 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $634 | $77,825117 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $1,290 | $55,25356 claims |
| AmgenProlia | $1,342 | $52,19632 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $273 | $48,76568 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $66 | $40,20438 claims |
| MerckJanumet, Januvia, Janumet Xr | $283 | $37,53747 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $177 | $22,86124 claims |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCTrulance | $617 | $17,17629 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix | $86 | $15,21120 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.
Other family medicine in Carrolltown
- Kem YenalPhila$12.6M
- Marcy FleckerSmithfield$6.9M
- Tiffany PlutoScottdale$4.8M
- Bryce PalchickPittsburgh$4.7M
- Harris CohenHorsham$3.7M
- Shari RozenPittsburgh$2.9M
- Richard CookUniontown$2.1M
- Bruce GebhardtErie$2.1M
- Peter CognettiScranton$1.9M
- Bradley FoxErie$1.7M
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.