Neal Erkes
Internal Medicine · Philadelphia, PANPI 1750338349
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 75 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $486 and has fallen 92.9% since, to $34 in 2023.
Across 75 payments — averaging $15.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$192
- AbbVie$148
- Pfizer$130
- Johnson & Johnson$98
- Amgen$95
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$78
- plus $403 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,144100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 11 | $192 |
| AbbVie | 13 | $148 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $130 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $98 |
| Amgen | 5 | $95 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $78 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $70 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $57 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $40 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $32 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Abbott | 2 | $27 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bayer | 1 | $18 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,144 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Other internal medicine in Philadelphia
- Jonathan EpsteinPhiladelphia$13.1M
- Pitamber DevgonPhiladelphia$7.5M
- Daniel RaderPhiladelphia$1.7M
- David GoldmannPhiladelphia$525K
- Eyob FeyssaPhiladelphia$328K
- Emil AbramianPhiladelphia$199K
- Michael KnightPhiladelphia$178K
- James BlakePhiladelphia$164K
- Gina SimonciniPhiladelphia$158K
- James LewisPhiladelphia$106K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.