Efren Rael, MD
Allergy & Immunology · Hershey, PANPI 1356512875
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 125 payments — averaging $20.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi$584
- CSL Behring$517
- AstraZeneca$475
- GSK$327
- Grifols USA, LLC$138
- Novartis$91
- plus $396 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,527100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi | 15 | $584 |
| CSL Behring | 24 | $517 |
| AstraZeneca | 11 | $475 |
| GSK | 29 | $327 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 21 | $138 |
| Novartis | 5 | $91 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 4 | $66 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Biocryst US Sales Co., LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 2 | $32 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $26 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $18 |
| GC Biopharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
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
$2,527 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 175 allergy & immunology 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.
Other allergy & immunology in Hershey
- Timothy CraigHershey$2M
- Gisoo GhaffariHershey$135K
- Drew WeissmanPhiladelphia$15.3M
- Eric SchenkelBethlehem$845K
- Sergei BelenkyPittsburgh$775K
- Sandra GawchikUpland$390K
- Anthony RooklinGlen Mills$319K
- Corinna BowserNarberth$229K
- Thomas KleinHavertown$222K
- Rahul DattaPhiladelphia$198K
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.