Michael Pawlowsky
Gastroenterology · Pottstown, PANPI 1649250416
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.1% of the total across 453 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC at 27.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,239 and has fallen 95.3% since, to $104 in 2023.
Across 453 payments — averaging $16.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
- AbbVie$1K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$609
- Bristol Myers Squibb$366
- Shionogi Inc$306
- Gilead$299
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,20399%
- Education$120%
- Gifts$531%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 154 | $1,970 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 74 | $1,458 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 43 | $609 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 26 | $366 |
| Shionogi Inc | 14 | $306 |
| Gilead | 25 | $299 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $267 |
| UCB, Inc. | 8 | $248 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $213 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 7 | $166 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $161 |
| Merck | 10 | $156 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 8 | $150 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $133 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 7 | $125 |
| Concordia Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $117 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $101 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 6 | $86 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $77 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $60 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 2 | $58 |
| Vivus LLC | 3 | $33 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 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.
How this compares
$7,269 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 935 gastroenterology providers in Pennsylvania.
Other gastroenterology in Pottstown
- Miguel RegueiroPittsburgh$1.5M
- Adam PeytonAllentown$985K
- Shahin RahimianWaynesboro$592K
- Sandra El-HachemPittsburgh$472K
- Harshit KharaDanville$438K
- Kofi ClarkeHershey$426K
- Michael KochmanPhiladelphia$361K
- Gary LichtensteinPhiladelphia$342K
- Elie AounPittsburgh$323K
- Andrew TinsleyHershey$322K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.