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Dong Ko, MD

Pain Medicine · Allentown, PANPI 1629066329

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,127in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 583 payments — averaging $13.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$2K
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
  • Medtronic$907
  • Pfizer$663
  • Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$582
  • Redhill Biopharma Inc.$248
  • plus $2K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,127100%

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

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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.

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

$8,127 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 294 pain medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$393,128
Medicare patients
402
Services billed
3,901

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
RelistorMethylnaltrexone Bromide21$73,433
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl71$34,666
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate36$18,713
Oxycodone Hcl1,078$15,895
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl27$11,637
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen525$11,270
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate17$9,721
Gabapentin446$8,829
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate355$7,628
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen405$7,328
Tizanidine Hcl415$6,888
Pregabalin339$5,986
Lidocaine75$5,758
Morphine Sulfate188$5,114
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl35$4,619

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCRelistor$1,776$73,43321 claims
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Xtampza Er, Belbuca$1,890$30,35063 claims
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USAMorphine Sulfate, Buprenorphine-Naloxone$32$9,733223 claims
Redhill Biopharma Inc.Movantik$248$9,72117 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 80th percentile of 294 pain medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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