John Kirkwood, MD
Medical Oncology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1528036449
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 572 payments — averaging $5972.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$1.2M
- Regeneron$836K
- Merck$692K
- Novartis$215K
- Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.$209K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$81K
- plus $226K from 12 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $600.32 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Regeneron$4K
- Novartis$2K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$54,73854%
- Speaking & faculty fees$27,37527%
- Travel & lodging$15,48615%
- Food & beverage$3,2513%
- Education$7711%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 63 | $1,157,707 |
| Regeneron | 240 | $835,901 |
| Merck | 60 | $692,085 |
| Novartis | 35 | $214,583 |
| Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 73 | $208,962 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 13 | $81,047 |
| Amgen | 20 | $73,198 |
| Incyte Corporation | 15 | $66,304 |
| Immunocore Limited | 36 | $65,985 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 6 | $8,427 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $3,720 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $3,000 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $2,385 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $2,304 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $600 |
| GE HealthCare | 2 | $204 |
| F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG | 1 | $60 |
| Abbott | 1 | $30 |
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
$3,416,502 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 238 medical oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase | 16 | $16,837 |
| Hydrocortisone | 42 | $2,000 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 37 | $407 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 42 | $324 |
| Prednisone | 20 | $113 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other medical oncology in Pittsburgh
- Adam BrufskyPittsburgh$6M
- Melissa BurgessPittsburgh$2.4M
- Nathan BaharyPittsburgh$2.1M
- Jane RaymondPittsburgh$794K
- Ariel Lopez-ChavezPittsburgh$727K
- Ashwin SomasundaramPittsburgh$696K
- Sukhmani PaddaPhiladelphia$25.6M
- Peter O DwyerPhiladelphia$18M
- Margaret von MehrenPhiladelphia$17.4M
- Kim Reiss BinderPhiladelphia$16.9M
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.