Robert Gallo, MD
Sports Medicine · Hershey, PANPI 1235356379
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,200 of the $1,711 with a category attached, or 70.1%. Novus Surgical Solutions LLC accounts for 72.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,256 and has fallen 70.8% since, to $366 in 2025.
Across 13 payments — averaging $131.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novus Surgical Solutions LLC$1K
- Novus Surgical Consultants$224
- Stryker$132
- Johnson & Johnson$58
- Smith+Nephew$40
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$15
Across 11 payments — averaging $2661.33 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.
- Aesculap Biologics, LLC$29K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$51130%
- Education$1,20070%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novus Surgical Solutions LLC | 2 | $1,241 |
| Novus Surgical Consultants | 6 | $224 |
| Stryker | 1 | $132 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $58 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $40 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- PANGEA$132
How this compares
$1,711 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 311 sports medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 20 | $123 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Hershey
- Sam AkhavanPittsburgh$2.2M
- Albert LinPittsburgh$460K
- Sommer HammoudPhiladelphia$238K
- Theresa PazionisPhiladelphia$235K
- Matthew Varacallodu Bois$129K
- Matthew BestAllentown$77K
- Marco AlcalaCanonsburg$54K
- Brandon TaubergWashington$54K
- Alexander JohnsonBethlehem$51K
- Tyler HauerPittsburgh$48K
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.