Michael Qaqish
Vascular Surgery · Allentown, PANPI 1548657596
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,482 of the $14,568 with a category attached, or 65.1%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Penumbra, Inc. at 26.0% of the total.
Across 171 payments — averaging $85.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$4K
- Cook Medical LLC$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Stryker$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Endologix LLC$1K
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,85626%
- Food & beverage$9,48265%
- Education$1,2308%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 19 | $3,785 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 69 | $2,804 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 22 | $1,931 |
| Stryker | 6 | $1,681 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 10 | $1,233 |
| Endologix LLC | 19 | $1,228 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 4 | $650 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 4 | $498 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $181 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $172 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $167 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 5 | $95 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $67 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Indigo System$3,132
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$1,486
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$1,486
- Zenith Spiral-Z$801
- CLOTTRIEVER BOLD CATHETER$668
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$616
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$500
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$498
- Endurant$323
- IN.PACT Admiral$280
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$275
- Cook$274
- ENDURANT IIS$255
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$246
- Zenith$245
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$172
- RotarexS 6 F x 135 cm$164
- Penumbra System$138
- Vascular Graft$125
- ELUVIA$125
How this compares
$14,568 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 236 vascular surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 68 | $608 |
| Cilostazol | 13 | $308 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 27 | $186 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Allentown
- Mila JuAllentown$36K
- Benjamin JacksonAllentown$26K
- Darren SchneiderPhiladelphia$569K
- Elizabeth GenovesePhiladelphia$343K
- Shang LohPhiladelphia$306K
- Paul FoleyDoylestown$241K
- Michel MakarounPittsburgh$143K
- Robert MeisnerLebanon$128K
- Vincent DigiovanniMedia$127K
- Efthymios AvgerinosPittsburgh$120K
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.