Cynthia West
Nephrology · Mechanicsburg, PANPI 1316923543
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 93 payments — averaging $19.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$481
- Abbott$214
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$166
- Novo Nordisk$135
- IBSA Pharma Inc.$134
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$101
- plus $592 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,823100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 27 | $481 |
| Abbott | 8 | $214 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 9 | $166 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $135 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 6 | $134 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $101 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 5 | $80 |
| Menarini Silicon Biosystems, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $49 |
| Vyera Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Amgen | 2 | $38 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $34 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Acella Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $20 |
| Halozyme Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$1,823 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 586 nephrology providers in Pennsylvania.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gamunex-CImmune Globul G/Gly/Iga Avg 46 | 13 | $75,039 |
| ProgesteroneProgesterone, Micronized | 20 | $739 |
| CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil | 11 | $569 |
| Ezetimibe | 18 | $562 |
| Liothyronine Sodium | 20 | $458 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 17 | $338 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 41 | $266 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 11 | $86 |
| Sodium Chloride0.9 % Sodium Chloride | 11 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Mechanicsburg
- Katalin SusztakPhiladelphia$4.8M
- Debbie Cohen SteinPhiladelphia$2.8M
- Nelson KopytAllentown$2.1M
- Iris LeePhiladelphia$1.9M
- Abdallahsassine GearaPhiladelphia$1.2M
- Alexander ChangDanville$1000K
- Gaia MuallemPhiladelphia$942K
- Chike OkechukwuUpland$875K
- Christopher GislerPittsburgh$757K
- Umar FarooqHershey$723K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.