RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Apostolis, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1770892713

Payments from drug & device makers

$60,619in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 346 payments — averaging $175.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$55K
  • Johnson & Johnson$3K
  • GSK$589
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$464
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$307
  • Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc$175
  • plus $2K from 26 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$48,60080%
  • Travel & lodging$1,9753%
  • Food & beverage$9,90216%
  • Education$1420%

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

$60,619 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 703 pulmonary disease providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$57,284
Medicare patients
314
Services billed
718

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
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter247$195,378
Fasenra PenBenralizumab13$74,477
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr78$36,147
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol90$36,098
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol40$30,414
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate127$3,610
Roflumilast13$1,665
Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate12$1,292
Azelastine Hcl51$1,112
Montelukast Sodium134$984
Omeprazole101$623
Fluticasone Propionate34$353
Bupropion Hcl SrBupropion Hcl18$221
Methylprednisolone17$126
Pantoprazole Sodium15$59

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
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$589$267,623415 claims
AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere$54,870$30,41440 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 85th percentile of 703 pulmonary disease providers in Pennsylvania.

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