Jason Lu, MD
Internal Medicine · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1255370722
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 562 payments — averaging $22.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$4K
- GSK$2K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$890
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$851
- Sanofi$842
- Boehringer Ingelheim$760
- plus $4K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$12,31496%
- Education$4644%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 141 | $3,700 |
| GSK | 119 | $1,996 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 39 | $890 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 21 | $851 |
| Sanofi | 45 | $842 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 39 | $760 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 13 | $556 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $304 |
| Amgen | 14 | $291 |
| Philips North America LLC | 18 | $275 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 13 | $274 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 9 | $224 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 4 | $202 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 7 | $183 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $172 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 10 | $169 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 7 | $166 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 5 | $116 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 6 | $116 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $80 |
| Merck | 4 | $71 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $56 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $53 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Bayer | 2 | $38 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $38 |
| Resmed Corp | 2 | $34 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $24 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Watermark Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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
$12,778 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 350 | $268,150 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 55 | $48,023 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 63 | $30,019 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 52 | $23,367 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 19 | $12,590 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 298 | $10,001 |
| Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide | 20 | $7,052 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 44 | $5,196 |
| Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 17 | $2,618 |
| Varenicline Tartrate | 13 | $2,247 |
| BreynaBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 12 | $2,122 |
| Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 26 | $1,465 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 13 | $1,207 |
| Prednisone | 45 | $226 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 22 | $185 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta | $1,996 | $328,587485 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere | $3,700 | $48,02355 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimSpiriva Respimat | $760 | $12,59019 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 95th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Other internal medicine in Pittsburgh
- Siddharth ShethPittsburgh$11M
- Liza VillaruzPittsburgh$6.6M
- Raman PurighallaPittsburgh$3.9M
- Annie ImPittsburgh$1.2M
- Manisha JhambPittsburgh$1.1M
- Enrico NovelliPittsburgh$397K
- Donald MiddletonPittsburgh$258K
- Thomas CurleyPittsburgh$213K
- Sandra SobelPittsburgh$178K
- Jonathan EpsteinPhiladelphia$13.1M
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.