RxDoctor Payments Data

Kornel Lukacs, MD

Neurology · Altoona, PANPI 1164443354

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,603in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 90 payments — averaging $17.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$555
  • Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC$239
  • Novartis$218
  • Pfizer$76
  • Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$62
  • Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$55
  • plus $398 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,58299%
  • Education$211%

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

$1,603 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 941 neurology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$66,999
Medicare patients
65
Services billed
620

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen503$9,048
Gabapentin487$8,794
Levetiracetam211$4,615
Divalproex Sodium52$3,620
Naloxone Hcl44$3,417
DilantinPhenytoin Sodium Extended24$2,884
Oxycodone Hcl205$2,599
Zonisamide156$2,557
Topiramate247$2,485
Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium67$2,405
RizatriptanRizatriptan Benzoate185$2,379
Sumatriptan Succinate181$1,630
Ropinirole Hcl132$1,623
Butalbital-Acetaminophen-CaffeButalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine149$1,455
Pregabalin71$1,404

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
PfizerDilantin$76$2,88424 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 55th percentile of 941 neurology providers in Pennsylvania.

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