RxDoctor Payments Data

Priyanka Ghosh

Internal Medicine · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1164954483

Payments from drug & device makers

$13,377in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 217 payments — averaging $61.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$3K
  • Boston Scientific$2K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$2K
  • W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
  • Abbott$1K
  • Abiomed$853
  • plus $3K from 29 others
$820in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $820.00 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.

  • Medtronic$820

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1481%
  • Grants$1,0638%
  • Travel & lodging$3,09823%
  • Food & beverage$8,50464%
  • Education$5634%

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

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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

$13,377 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan30$33,520
EliquisApixaban25$27,762
JardianceEmpagliflozin17$14,369
BrilintaTicagrelor23$11,857
Metoprolol Succinate64$1,016
Carvedilol42$636
Atorvastatin Calcium52$560
Spironolactone66$339
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate17$291
Nadolol11$259
Torsemide15$228
Valsartan27$212
Rosuvastatin Calcium22$155
Losartan Potassium14$136

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
NovartisEntresto$298$33,52030 claims
PfizerEliquis$122$27,76225 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$38$14,36917 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$66$11,85723 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 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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