Harvey Lefton
Gastroenterology · Bala Cynwyd, PANPI 1346204872
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 314 payments — averaging $14.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
- AbbVie$824
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$535
- Johnson & Johnson$534
- Gilead$245
- UCB, Inc.$125
- plus $604 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,485100%
- Education$130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 119 | $1,631 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 57 | $824 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 37 | $535 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 36 | $534 |
| Gilead | 21 | $245 |
| UCB, Inc. | 7 | $125 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 6 | $99 |
| Merck | 5 | $75 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $56 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $55 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $34 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 1 | $17 |
How this compares
$4,498 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 935 gastroenterology providers in Pennsylvania.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Niacin ErNiacin | 12 | $425 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Bala Cynwyd
- Kuchikala ReddyPhiladelphia$6.5M
- Glenn FreedPottsville$3.8M
- Nirav ShahWyomissing$3.5M
- Jaideep BehariPittsburgh$2.7M
- Adnan AhmadCamp Hill$2.1M
- Frederick RuthardtUniontown$1.7M
- Adam PeytonAllentown$1.6M
- Dina Halegoua de MarzioPhiladelphia$1.5M
- Miguel RegueiroPittsburgh$1.5M
- Gary FalkPhiladelphia$1.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.