RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Cipolle, MD

Surgical Critical Care · Allentown, PANPI 1609883289

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 14 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for surgical critical care clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $1,144.

$1,128in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $80.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Haemonetics Corporation$244
  • Baxter Healthcare$242
  • Abbott$203
  • Kerecis Limited$148
  • CSL Behring$145
  • Avanos Medical$39
  • plus $106 from 5 others
$27,500in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $5500.00 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.

  • AstraZeneca$28K

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,128100%

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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25

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

$1,128 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 124 surgical critical care providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$70,452
Medicare patients
419
Services billed
859

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.

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