Joseph Dipoala
Internal Medicine · Rochester, NYNPI 1639124605
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 274 payments — averaging $114.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$24K
- Modernatx, Inc.$3K
- Lilly USA, LLC$546
- AstraZeneca$447
- Pfizer$323
- GSK$282
- plus $2K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,55134%
- Food & beverage$4,95366%
- Education$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 17 | $23,800 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 10 | $3,478 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 38 | $546 |
| AstraZeneca | 26 | $447 |
| Pfizer | 31 | $323 |
| GSK | 19 | $282 |
| Novo Nordisk | 19 | $259 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 9 | $252 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 16 | $240 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $214 |
| Amgen | 10 | $186 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $176 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $167 |
| Merck | 9 | $120 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $110 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $104 |
| Novartis | 6 | $101 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $80 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $46 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Abbott | 2 | $40 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Biogen | 2 | $37 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Alvogen Inc | 1 | $22 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $21 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $14 |
| Bayer | 1 | $13 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 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.
How this compares
$31,318 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.
Other internal medicine in Rochester
- Patrick ReaganRochester$9.4M
- Angela BrancheRochester$7.9M
- Patrick ConnorsRochester$4M
- Richard DunneRochester$1.6M
- Helena YuNew York$50.9M
- Neha KordeNew York$21.2M
- Karen AutioNew York$18.5M
- Ingo MellinghoffNew York$16.1M
- Gopakumar IyerNew York$12.4M
- David DoveEast Hampton$12.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.