RxDoctor Payments Data

Joshua Dalessio, MD

Family Medicine · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1356500458

Payments from drug & device makers

$711in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $19.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$175
  • Lilly USA, LLC$98
  • Abbott$89
  • Pfizer$74
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$62
  • Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$46
  • plus $166 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$711100%

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

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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.

How this compares

$711 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 4,967 family medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$121,475
Medicare patients
267
Services billed
2,166

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban171$147,366
JardianceEmpagliflozin48$47,847
TradjentaLinagliptin30$32,041
ProliaDenosumab14$23,027
XareltoRivaroxaban28$19,111
OzempicSemaglutide20$18,347
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan18$12,641
Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro32$8,304
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog15$4,459
Famotidine61$4,345
Atorvastatin Calcium414$4,001
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol20$3,544
Levothyroxine Sodium309$3,416
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog29$2,839
Oxycodone Hcl34$2,675

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$74$148,795186 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$62$79,88878 claims
AmgenProlia$16$23,02714 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$175$18,34720 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 60th percentile of 4,967 family medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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