Joshua Portnoy, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Littleton, CONPI 1952362154
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (52.2%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Pfizer accounts for 70.0% of it on its own, with 56 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $15,473 and has fallen 93.7% since, to $979 in 2025.
Across 313 payments — averaging $65.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$14K
- AstraZeneca$939
- GSK$747
- Sanofi$722
- Grifols USA, LLC$486
- Boehringer Ingelheim$351
- plus $3K from 51 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,70052%
- Travel & lodging$3,54717%
- Food & beverage$6,01629%
- Education$2521%
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.
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
$20,515 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 248 pulmonary disease providers in Colorado.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 97 | $100,292 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 84 | $72,178 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 92 | $62,039 |
| Dupixent SyringeDupilumab | 14 | $61,767 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 48 | $43,422 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 46 | $36,570 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 25 | $13,096 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 23 | $3,229 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 21 | $2,311 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 46 | $1,571 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 24 | $515 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 27 | $435 |
| Lisinopril | 23 | $395 |
| Omeprazole | 22 | $330 |
| Simvastatin | 15 | $308 |
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, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $747 | $121,843155 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $14,371 | $100,29297 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimStiolto Respimat | $351 | $62,03992 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $23 | $43,42248 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 85th percentile of 248 pulmonary disease providers in Colorado.
Other pulmonary disease in Littleton
- Robert BenkertLittleton$39K
- Michael WechslerDenver$2.7M
- Ronald BalkissoonDenver$1.2M
- David SchwartzAurora$471K
- Vamsi GunturDenver$310K
- Kevin BrownDenver$299K
- Rebecca KeithDenver$248K
- Joshiah GordonPueblo$208K
- Marjorie GeorgeDenver$192K
- Everett SutherlandDenver$174K
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.