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Nicholas Kolaitis, MD

Pulmonary Disease · San Francisco, CANPI 1891060067

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,104,980in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 242 payments — averaging $4566.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$1M
  • United Therapeutics Corporation$34K
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$18K
  • Chiesi USA, Inc.$10K
  • Bayer$2K
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Ltd$923
  • plus $2K from 10 others
$365in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $365.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Merck$365

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$80,73366%
  • Travel & lodging$30,94825%
  • Food & beverage$9,9008%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$1,104,980 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,261 pulmonary disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$93,858
Medicare patients
289
Services billed
937

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Tyvaso DpiTreprostinil55$1,328,796
UptraviSelexipag29$617,224
OpsumitMacitentan32$400,639
Tyvaso Refill KitTreprostinil/Neb Accessories18$383,461
WinrevairSotatercept-Csrk18$253,731
AdempasRiociguat13$180,562
Sildenafil Citrate41$133,537
PrevymisLetermovir13$96,912
Ambrisentan22$77,802
Valganciclovir Hcl140$32,456
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter40$24,962
Tadalafil37$24,718
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide16$16,394
Everolimus16$13,397
Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl20$13,204

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Uptravi, Opsumit$18,237$1,017,86361 claims
MerckWinrevair, Prevymis$1,038,372$350,64231 claims
BayerAdempas$1,679$180,56213 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$164$56,800119 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 95th percentile of 1,261 pulmonary disease providers in California.

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