Marco Alcala, MD
Sports Medicine · Canonsburg, PANPI 1912119967
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $49,010 of the $53,844 with a category attached, or 91.0%. Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. accounts for 96.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $33,355 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $73 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 169 payments — averaging $318.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$52K
- Amgen$653
- Bioventus LLC$364
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$191
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$167
- Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.$149
- plus $142 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$49,01091%
- Travel & lodging$1,5043%
- Food & beverage$3,3306%
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 73 | $52,178 |
| Amgen | 55 | $653 |
| Bioventus LLC | 14 | $364 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 5 | $191 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $167 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 8 | $149 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $41 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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
$53,844 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 311 sports medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Protriptyline Hcl | 11 | $3,908 |
| Methylprednisolone | 123 | $874 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 70 | $817 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 19 | $197 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 17 | $161 |
| Meloxicam | 113 | $157 |
| Topiramate | 11 | $55 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $49 |
| Prednisone | 17 | $37 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 19 | $36 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 21 | $9 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Canonsburg
- Scott SchweizerCanonsburg$7K
- Sam AkhavanPittsburgh$2.2M
- Albert LinPittsburgh$460K
- Sommer HammoudPhiladelphia$238K
- Theresa PazionisPhiladelphia$235K
- Matthew Varacallodu Bois$129K
- Matthew BestAllentown$77K
- Brandon TaubergWashington$54K
- Alexander JohnsonBethlehem$51K
- Tyler HauerPittsburgh$48K
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.