Richard Wilkerson, MD
Emergency Medicine · Baltimore, MDNPI 1578735551
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $161 of the $233 with a category attached, or 69.1%. 3 manufacturers reported payments, led by Novartis at 52.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $123 and has fallen 88.1% since, to $15 in 2023.
Across 4 payments — averaging $58.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$123
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$72
- Vapotherm Inc$38
Across 90 payments — averaging $14,170 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.
- Regeneron$387K
- Greiner Bio-one North America, Inc.$366K
- BD$132K
- Pfizer$129K
- Vapotherm Inc$124K
- Eli Lilly$59K
- plus $79K from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$16169%
- Education$7231%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 1 | $123 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $72 |
| Vapotherm Inc | 2 | $38 |
How this compares
$233 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 925 emergency medicine providers in Maryland.
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 emergency medicine in Baltimore
- Leana WenBaltimore$2.2M
- Matthew LevyBaltimore$135K
- Ron ElfenbeinBaltimore$60K
- Asa MargolisBaltimore$21K
- Binoy MistryBaltimore$15K
- Giorgio GalettoBaltimore$10K
- Steven JoffeBaltimore$9K
- Nathan IrvinBaltimore$9K
- Richard RothmanBaltimore$8K
- Thomas WindsorBaltimore$6K
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.