James Cipolla, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Fountain Hill, PANPI 1780615468
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 94.7% of the total across 22 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 43.4% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for surgical critical care clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $1,144.
Across 22 payments — averaging $21.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$205
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$74
- TELA Bio, Inc.$39
- Applied Medical Resources Corporation$33
- Zimmer Biomet$26
- Z-medica, LLC$25
- plus $70 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$255%
- Food & beverage$44795%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 11 | $205 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $74 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $26 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $20 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$472 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 124 surgical critical care 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 surgical critical care in Fountain Hill
- Joshua HazeltonYork$176K
- Lourdes CastanonMonroeville$41K
- Alan MurdockPittsburgh$32K
- Satish MulukPittsburgh$32K
- Joseph Fernandez-MourePhiladelphia$24K
- Hamed AmaniAllentown$21K
- Ronen ElefantWilliamsport$20K
- Jesse GoddardYork$18K
- Christopher ButtsWest Reading$15K
- Daniel CarneyYork$13K
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.