Panayiotis Varelas, MD
Neurology · Detroit, MINPI 1477628113
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 41 payments — averaging $2812.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$64K
- UCB, Inc.$29K
- Immedica Pharma US, Inc.$12K
- UCB SA$5K
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$2K
- Biogen$1K
- plus $2K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$43,72591%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,2185%
- Travel & lodging$1,1532%
- Food & beverage$7592%
- Education$130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 10 | $63,727 |
| UCB, Inc. | 10 | $29,433 |
| Immedica Pharma US, Inc. | 5 | $12,072 |
| UCB SA | 1 | $5,400 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $1,863 |
| Biogen | 1 | $1,000 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 8 | $749 |
| Voxneuro USA Inc. | 1 | $500 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $468 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $79 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$115,304 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 652 neurology providers in Michigan.
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.
Other neurology in Detroit
- Evanthia BernitsasDetroit$4.8M
- Mirela CerghetDetroit$3.8M
- Bisena BulicaDetroit$1.4M
- Jacob RubeDetroit$651K
- Tobias WalbertDetroit$490K
- Andrew RussmanDetroit$488K
- Daniel NewmanDetroit$355K
- Kavita GroverDetroit$236K
- Aaron EllenbogenFarmington Hills$14.5M
- Martin BelkinFarmington Hills$5.8M
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.