Nikola Kocovic
Internal Medicine · Philadelphia, PANPI 1255890042
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,394 of the $10,023 with a category attached, or 63.8%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 37.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,326, 9.0 times the $814 reported in 2023. Among internal medicine clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 173 payments — averaging $57.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Abbott$3K
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$845
- Abiomed$620
- Novartis$363
- Atricure, Inc.$297
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,07931%
- Food & beverage$6,39464%
- Education$5505%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $3,722 |
| Abbott | 28 | $2,713 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 17 | $845 |
| Abiomed | 13 | $620 |
| Novartis | 49 | $363 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $297 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $274 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $263 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 4 | $251 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $175 |
| Amgen | 6 | $131 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $111 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $102 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $54 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 2 | $45 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $28 |
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
$10,023 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.