Peter Lipsky
Rheumatology · Charlottesville, VANPI 1225441363
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $1,100,800 of the $1,285,909 with a category attached, or 85.6%. Amgen accounts for 99.3% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $789,930 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $4,905 in 2025. Among rheumatology clinicians in VA 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 49 payments — averaging $26,243 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$1.3M
- Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$4K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$3K
- Gilead$2K
- EMD Serono Research & Development Institute, Inc.$1K
- Eli Lilly$145
- plus $143 from 3 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $72,479 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.
- Amgen$196K
- Pfizer$91K
- Eli Lilly$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,100,80086%
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,9341%
- Grants$157,20012%
- Travel & lodging$15,1621%
- Food & beverage$8130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 38 | $1,276,468 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 1 | $3,630 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 1 | $2,790 |
| Gilead | 3 | $1,563 |
| EMD Serono Research & Development Institute, Inc. | 1 | $1,170 |
| Eli Lilly | 2 | $145 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $105 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
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
$1,285,909 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 159 rheumatology providers in Virginia.
Other rheumatology in Charlottesville
- Donald KimpelCharlottesville$26K
- Astrud Lorraine LeyvaCharlottesville$6K
- Kristi MizelleNewport News$1.1M
- Phillip KempfArlington$321K
- Sharukh ShroffDanville$216K
- Michael StrachanRichmond$158K
- Karim MasriRichmond$147K
- Michael CannonVirginia Beach$145K
- Phong NguyenReston$127K
- Chase CorreiaHampton$70K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.