Michael Pisano
Internal Medicine · Philadelphia, PANPI 1538103924
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 116 payments — averaging $18.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$481
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$304
- Johnson & Johnson$241
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$241
- Pfizer$107
- Merck$90
- plus $648 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,92091%
- Education$1939%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 30 | $481 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 21 | $304 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $241 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $241 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $107 |
| Merck | 7 | $90 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 4 | $86 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $57 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $44 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $43 |
| Biogen | 3 | $38 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $33 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Circassia Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Novartis | 1 | $15 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $11 |
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.
- XARELTO$115
How this compares
$2,113 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Glycopyrrolate | 11 | $530 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 12 | $430 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Philadelphia
- Jonathan EpsteinPhiladelphia$13.1M
- Pitamber DevgonPhiladelphia$7.5M
- Walter KraftPhiladelphia$3.7M
- Daniel RaderPhiladelphia$3.3M
- Archna BajajPhiladelphia$2.9M
- Gary YeomanPhiladelphia$2.4M
- Melina MarmarelisPhiladelphia$2.1M
- Adam WaxmanPhiladelphia$894K
- Donna GavaronePhiladelphia$728K
- Eyob FeyssaPhiladelphia$693K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.