RxDoctor Payments Data

Melina Irizarry-Acosta, MD

Infectious Disease · Sayre, PANPI 1659589547

Payments from drug & device makers

$870in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 44 payments — averaging $19.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$284
  • Merck$268
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$238
  • Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$27
  • Insmed, Inc.$21
  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$17
  • plus $15 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$85799%
  • Education$131%

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

$870 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 457 infectious disease providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$100,776
Medicare patients
318
Services billed
928

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
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala39$178,000
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam16$38,615
IsentressRaltegravir Potassium12$27,319
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium12$23,308
Daptomycin41$21,003
ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium24$15,494
Piperacillin-TazobactamPiperacillin Sodium/Tazobactam41$12,202
Methenamine Hippurate88$5,675
Vancomycin Hcl47$4,336
Cefazolin Sodium33$3,086
Cefepime Hcl14$2,511
Doxycycline Hyclate98$1,663
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil50$1,560
CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium17$1,487
Cephalexin85$964

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
MerckIsentress$268$27,31912 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyTivicay$238$23,30812 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 70th percentile of 457 infectious disease providers in Pennsylvania.

Other infectious disease in Sayre

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