RxDoctor Payments Data

Edward Balestrino, DO

Family Medicine · Petrolia, PANPI 1134102627

Payments from drug & device makers

$953in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 75 payments — averaging $12.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$190
  • GSK$113
  • Pfizer$105
  • Amgen$84
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$67
  • AstraZeneca$66
  • plus $326 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$953100%

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.

How this compares

$953 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 4,967 family medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$14,513
Medicare patients
43
Services billed
142

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
EliquisApixaban19$9,777
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan11$7,834
MyrbetriqMirabegron30$7,660
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol13$2,287
LantusInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog25$1,869
Levothyroxine Sodium121$1,453
Lisinopril114$1,291
Pantoprazole Sodium74$1,263
Gabapentin66$1,216
Clonazepam32$1,091
Divalproex Sodium29$1,073
NyamycNystatin18$1,022
NovologInsulin Aspart12$960
Losartan Potassium35$918
Mirtazapine48$847

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
PfizerEliquis$105$9,77719 claims
NovartisEntresto$22$7,83411 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$29$7,66030 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus$11$1,86925 claims
Novo NordiskNovolog$190$96012 claims
Lilly USA, LLCOlanzapine$55$26111 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 65th percentile of 4,967 family medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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