RxDoctor Payments Data

Kara Yakish, MD

Dermatology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1427312248

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,626in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 211 payments — averaging $17.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$872
  • Novartis$411
  • Sanofi$371
  • AbbVie$326
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$292
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$218
  • plus $1K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$862%
  • Food & beverage$3,24790%
  • Education$2938%

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.

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

$3,626 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 626 dermatology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$95,023
Medicare patients
394
Services billed
1,177

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
OtezlaApremilast42$212,458
Dupixent PenDupilumab24$104,217
Dupixent SyringeDupilumab13$52,258
OpzeluraRuxolitinib Phosphate12$23,672
Fluorouracil82$7,679
Betamethasone Diprop AugmentedBetamethasone/Propylene Glyc67$5,938
Metronidazole48$5,101
Calcipotriene14$4,472
Clobetasol Propionate78$3,877
Tacrolimus20$2,895
Doxycycline Hyclate45$1,958
Ketoconazole87$1,948
Fluocinonide38$1,635
Triamcinolone Acetonide136$1,283
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate15$1,228

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
AmgenOtezla$172$212,45842 claims
Incyte CorporationOpzelura$116$23,67212 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 626 dermatology providers in Pennsylvania.

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