RxDoctor Payments Data

Oleg Akilov

Dermatology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1316274590

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $330,378 of the $408,803 with a category attached, or 80.8%. Kyowa Kirin, Inc. accounts for 61.4% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $161,197, more than ten times the $697 reported in 2019. Among dermatology 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.

$408,803in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 535 payments — averaging $764.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Kyowa Kirin, Inc.$251K
  • Therakos LLC$92K
  • Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc.$32K
  • Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$20K
  • Helsinn Healthcare SA$6K
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$2K
  • plus $5K from 17 others
$872,492in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 307 payments — averaging $2841.99 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.

  • Eisai Inc.$431K
  • Kyowa Kirin, Inc.$212K
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$165K
  • Pfizer$53K
  • Stemline Therapeutics Inc.$6K
  • Kyowa Kirin Pharmaceutical Development, Inc$5K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$29,3227%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$330,37881%
  • Travel & lodging$37,3969%
  • Food & beverage$11,6293%
  • Education$780%

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

$408,803 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 626 dermatology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$53,477
Medicare patients
253
Services billed
632

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
Bexarotene37$279,626
Bimzelx AutoinjectorBimekizumab-Bkzx12$174,891
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab12$116,125
ValchlorMechlorethamine Hcl12$73,021
Dupixent SyringeDupilumab19$70,956
Dupixent PenDupilumab18$67,843
Clobetasol Propionate115$6,452
Tacrolimus14$3,512
Ketoconazole174$2,563
Triamcinolone Acetonide145$2,084
Clindamycin Phosphate49$2,080
Fluocinolone Acetonide20$1,281
Fluorouracil15$1,125
Tretinoin14$762
Desonide19$752

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
Helsinn Healthcare SAValchlor$5,796$73,02112 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 626 dermatology providers in Pennsylvania.

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