Cristian Popescu, MD
Internal Medicine · Titusville, PANPI 1386646834
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 414 payments — averaging $15.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$823
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$726
- AbbVie$665
- Boehringer Ingelheim$511
- Novo Nordisk$445
- Novartis$381
- plus $3K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,348100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 60 | $823 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 29 | $726 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 46 | $665 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 38 | $511 |
| Novo Nordisk | 26 | $445 |
| Novartis | 38 | $381 |
| AstraZeneca | 24 | $356 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 21 | $313 |
| Merck | 18 | $304 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 17 | $233 |
| Amgen | 14 | $232 |
| GSK | 14 | $184 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 8 | $143 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $113 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 8 | $108 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 5 | $106 |
| Bayer | 6 | $100 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 4 | $84 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $74 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $38 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $36 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $21 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $19 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $6 |
How this compares
$6,348 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,705 internal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 198 | $178,255 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 168 | $131,348 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 73 | $66,880 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 51 | $60,994 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 72 | $38,739 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 31 | $25,148 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 24 | $22,770 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 17 | $20,896 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 36 | $19,227 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 28 | $19,134 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 38 | $18,641 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 44 | $18,636 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 19 | $17,458 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 19 | $14,802 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 14 | $12,599 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $823 | $178,255198 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Spiriva Respimat | $511 | $146,151187 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $445 | $66,88073 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $184 | $63,50995 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $74 | $60,99451 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $313 | $43,66541 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $726 | $38,73972 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Dulera | $304 | $22,90856 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $381 | $17,45819 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Savella | $665 | $17,24731 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $356 | $12,59914 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 90th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Other internal medicine in Titusville
- Jonathan EpsteinPhiladelphia$13.1M
- Siddharth ShethPittsburgh$11M
- Nathan PatelTannersville$9.5M
- Pitamber DevgonPhiladelphia$7.5M
- Christopher StillDanville$7.1M
- Liza VillaruzPittsburgh$6.6M
- Paul HartleyUniontown$4.9M
- Victor KoladeSayre$4.7M
- Michael OliverBeaver$4.7M
- Raman PurighallaPittsburgh$3.9M
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.