Robert Palumbo, MD
Sports Medicine · Allentown, PANPI 1124010491
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Novopedics, Inc. accounts for 63.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,280 and has fallen 94.4% since, to $293 in 2023.
Across 34 payments — averaging $166.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novopedics, Inc.$4K
- Arthrex$2K
- Stryker$146
- Novus Surgical Consultants$35
- Johnson & Johnson$20
- ERMI LLC$20
- plus $69 from 5 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $475.19 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$950
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,40042%
- Travel & lodging$2,18439%
- Food & beverage$1,08619%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novopedics, Inc. | 3 | $3,615 |
| Arthrex | 19 | $1,764 |
| Stryker | 4 | $146 |
| Novus Surgical Consultants | 1 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Novus Surgical Solutions LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $12 |
| Synergy Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $11 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- MAKO$122
How this compares
$5,670 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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.
Other sports medicine in Allentown
- Matthew BestAllentown$77K
- Neal StansburyAllentown$6K
- Sam AkhavanPittsburgh$2.2M
- Albert LinPittsburgh$460K
- Sommer HammoudPhiladelphia$238K
- Theresa PazionisPhiladelphia$235K
- Matthew Varacallodu Bois$129K
- Marco AlcalaCanonsburg$54K
- Brandon TaubergWashington$54K
- Alexander JohnsonBethlehem$51K
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.