Gilbert Perez
Family Medicine · Grindstone, PANPI 1659575041
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 88 payments — averaging $15.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$288
- AstraZeneca$278
- Johnson & Johnson$188
- Novartis$96
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$67
- Indivior Inc.$66
- plus $393 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,36199%
- Education$151%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 22 | $288 |
| AstraZeneca | 11 | $278 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $188 |
| Novartis | 7 | $96 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $67 |
| Indivior Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $54 |
| Amgen | 4 | $51 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $46 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $44 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $29 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $26 |
| Merck | 2 | $25 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Braeburn Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $16 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| GSK | 1 | $11 |
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.
- FARXIGA$120
How this compares
$1,376 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 4,967 family medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Finasteride | 14 | $161 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 12 | $97 |
| Prazosin Hcl | 11 | $59 |
| Ropinirole Hcl | 15 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Grindstone
- Kem YenalPhila$12.6M
- Marcy FleckerSmithfield$6.9M
- Tiffany PlutoScottdale$4.8M
- Bryce PalchickPittsburgh$4.7M
- Harris CohenHorsham$3.7M
- Shari RozenPittsburgh$2.9M
- Richard CookUniontown$2.1M
- Bruce GebhardtErie$2.1M
- Peter CognettiScranton$1.9M
- Bradley FoxErie$1.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.