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Liza Villaruz, MD

Internal Medicine · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1609060755

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,615,258in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 634 payments — averaging $10,434 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$1.3M
  • AstraZeneca$1.1M
  • Amgen$706K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$422K
  • Genentech, Inc.$421K
  • GSK$421K
  • plus $2.3M from 30 others
$19,167in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $1277.83 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Novartis$10K
  • Pfizer$5K
  • Regeneron$3K
  • F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$2K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$45,93886%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$5,85811%
  • Food & beverage$1,5593%
  • Education$1220%

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

$6,615,258 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$32,924
Medicare patients
101
Services billed
263

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
LorbrenaLorlatinib23$501,087
TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate12$203,035
GilotrifAfatinib Dimaleate11$131,268
Prochlorperazine Maleate40$1,567
Ondansetron Hcl52$607
Dexamethasone14$214
Olanzapine13$201
Oxycodone Hcl16$169
Levothyroxine Sodium20$122
Potassium Chloride14$86
Prednisone15$43

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
PfizerLorbrena$21,895$501,08723 claims
AstraZenecaTagrisso$1,081,891$203,03512 claims
Boehringer IngelheimGilotrif$113,142$131,26811 claims
Lilly USA, LLCOlanzapine$27,742$20113 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 95th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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