Christopher Varacallo, DO
Family Medicine · du Bois, PANPI 1821389768
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $383,617 of the $627,123 with a category attached, or 61.2%. Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated accounts for 89.0% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. 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.
Across 694 payments — averaging $903.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$558K
- Hydrocision, Inc.$40K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$9K
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$9K
- Curonix LLC$5K
- Trice Medical, Inc.$1K
- plus $4K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$383,61761%
- Speaking & faculty fees$160,73426%
- Travel & lodging$70,21211%
- Food & beverage$12,5522%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 446 | $558,348 |
| Hydrocision, Inc. | 36 | $40,403 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 30 | $9,237 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 36 | $9,148 |
| Curonix LLC | 20 | $4,916 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 9 | $1,492 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 10 | $1,050 |
| Stryker | 40 | $800 |
| Bioventus LLC | 12 | $364 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 22 | $362 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $230 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $130 |
| Amgen | 6 | $90 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $90 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $77 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 3 | $76 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Change Healthcare Technologies, LLC | 1 | $46 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $26 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $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.
- Iovera$465,887
- Zilretta$93,108
- EXPAREL$74,105
- TenJet$39,856
- SPRINT PNS System$8,800
- SpineJet$5,875
- AlloJet$5,875
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$4,538
- IOVERA SYSTEM$1,036
- ULTRAGUIDECTR$831
- ULTRAGUIDETFR$831
- STRATAFIX$150
- MONOCRYL$150
- Regeneten$100
How this compares
$627,123 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 26 | $245 |
| Meloxicam | 21 | $74 |
| Prednisone | 12 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in du Bois
- Neil SkolnikJenkintown$904K
- Lisa EspinozaNew Hope$722K
- Paul DoghramjiCollegeville$617K
- Brian DeyarminBethel Park$491K
- Nathan BennettPittsburgh$465K
- Gary OwensGlen Mills$404K
- Mary ZakutneyIrwin$393K
- H WilkinsSellersville$380K
- Deborah WittPhiladelphia$226K
- Michael AttanasioPhiladelphia$214K
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.