Michael Apostolis, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1770892713
Payments from drug & device makers
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 152 | $54,870 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 38 | $2,564 |
| GSK | 43 | $589 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 22 | $464 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 18 | $307 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $175 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $138 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 7 | $136 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 5 | $125 |
| Merck | 5 | $115 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 4 | $114 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $97 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 5 | $89 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $84 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 3 | $64 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $63 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 4 | $63 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Circassia Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Novartis | 2 | $30 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $25 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- FASENRA$52,154
- Monarch Platform$1,846
- BREZTRI$313
- TEZSPIRE$196
- ALIYA SYSTEM$164
- Cios Spin$136
- UPTRAVI$124
How this compares
$60,619 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 703 pulmonary disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 247 | $195,378 |
| Fasenra PenBenralizumab | 13 | $74,477 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 78 | $36,147 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 90 | $36,098 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 40 | $30,414 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 127 | $3,610 |
| Roflumilast | 13 | $1,665 |
| Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 12 | $1,292 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 51 | $1,112 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 134 | $984 |
| Omeprazole | 101 | $623 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 34 | $353 |
| Bupropion Hcl SrBupropion Hcl | 18 | $221 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $126 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 15 | $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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part 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.
Other pulmonary disease in Pittsburgh
- Kevin GibsonPittsburgh$1.3M
- Frank SciurbaPittsburgh$1.2M
- Joseph PilewskiPittsburgh$1M
- Steven DuncanPittsburgh$995K
- Tariq CheemaPittsburgh$907K
- Sally WenzelPittsburgh$676K
- Chadi HagePittsburgh$479K
- Stephen BashedaPittsburgh$456K
- Alison GimbelPittsburgh$304K
- Georgios KitsiosPittsburgh$300K
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.