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Feras Aloka, MD

Internal Medicine · Jefferson Hills, PANPI 1326161902

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,150in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 112 payments — averaging $45.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Endologix LLC$3K
  • Medtronic$438
  • Abbott$210
  • Johnson & Johnson$169
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$168
  • Shockwave Medical, Inc$159
  • plus $665 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,06398%
  • Education$140%
  • Other$731%

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

$5,150 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$357,969
Medicare patients
1,357
Services billed
4,370

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
EliquisApixaban432$521,792
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan169$227,429
CamzyosMavacamten12$103,385
XareltoRivaroxaban60$72,385
BrilintaTicagrelor87$68,516
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab52$61,993
JardianceEmpagliflozin37$39,875
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol23$34,382
Ranolazine ErRanolazine82$12,098
Metoprolol Succinate681$11,784
Atorvastatin Calcium547$9,482
Rosuvastatin Calcium399$7,746
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate375$7,261
Bumetanide127$6,124
Losartan Potassium401$5,778

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$75$521,792432 claims
NovartisEntresto$100$227,429169 claims
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Camzyos$84$103,38512 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga$25$102,898110 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$169$72,38560 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$32$39,87537 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 90th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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