Dawit Aregawi, MD
Neurological Surgery · Hershey, PANPI 1962424960
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 14 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Novocure Inc. accounts for 87.4% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $399 and has fallen 68.4% since, to $126 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for neurological surgery clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $3,234.
Across 14 payments — averaging $78.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novocure Inc.$956
- Telix Pharmaceuticals$126
- Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$12
Across 12 payments — averaging $7207.76 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Bristol Myers Squibb$69K
- Beigene, Ltd.$17K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,094100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novocure Inc. | 12 | $956 |
| Telix Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $126 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$1,094 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 390 neurological surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Everolimus | 12 | $87,235 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 21 | $2,182 |
| Levetiracetam | 62 | $2,077 |
| Lacosamide | 24 | $1,434 |
| Dexamethasone | 80 | $1,073 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 61 | $424 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $153 |
| Lamotrigine | 16 | $149 |
| Zonisamide | 11 | $127 |
| Metformin Hcl | 30 | $125 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl | 13 | $46 |
| Lorazepam | 11 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Hershey
- John KelleherHershey$225K
- Kevin CockroftHershey$86K
- Brad ZachariaHershey$73K
- Scott SimonHershey$68K
- Nicholas BrandmeirHershey$47K
- George ReiterHershey$42K
- James McInerneyHershey$41K
- Amer SamdaniPhiladelphia$4.4M
- Steven FalowskiFountain Hill$3M
- Adam KanterPittsburgh$2.6M
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.