RxDoctor Payments Data

Martin Wijkstrom, MD

Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1093991788

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $12,420 of the $17,694 with a category attached, or 70.2%. Vertex accounts for 99.1% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $9,457, more than ten times the $107 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$17,694in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $631.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vertex$18K
  • Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc.$107
  • Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$47
$1,234,984in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $123,498 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.

  • Vertex$1.2M
  • Dompe US, Inc.$642

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$12,42070%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$1,5699%
  • Travel & lodging$3,11618%
  • Food & beverage$5893%

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

$17,694 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$30,507
Medicare patients
38
Services billed
98

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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