Ross Simcoe, MD
Emergency Medicine · Philadelphia, PANPI 1801138193
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $12,963 of the $15,719 with a category attached, or 82.5%. Vapotherm Inc accounts for 99.7% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $11,045 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $32 in 2023. Among emergency medicine clinicians in PA 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 45 payments — averaging $349.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vapotherm Inc$16K
- CSL Behring$50
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,96382%
- Travel & lodging$2,35015%
- Food & beverage$3973%
- Gifts$100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vapotherm Inc | 42 | $15,670 |
| CSL Behring | 3 | $50 |
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.
- Precision Flow$14,880
How this compares
$15,719 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,120 emergency 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 17 | $513 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 43 | $427 |
| CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil | 22 | $303 |
| Cephalexin | 56 | $232 |
| Naproxen | 29 | $176 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 25 | $159 |
| Ibuprofen | 42 | $147 |
| Prednisone | 50 | $125 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 28 | $101 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 16 | $95 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 12 | $90 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $51 |
| Meclizine Hcl | 12 | $48 |
| Azithromycin | 11 | $35 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other emergency medicine in Philadelphia
- Robert PorterPhiladelphia$79K
- Lance BeckerPhiladelphia$67K
- Felipe Teran MerinoPhiladelphia$47K
- Judd HollanderPhiladelphia$44K
- Tareva Warrick-StonePhiladelphia$32K
- Amanda HornPhiladelphia$20K
- Michael GreenbergPhiladelphia$11K
- David VearrierPhiladelphia$10K
- Anna Marie ChangPhiladelphia$9K
- Ryan GibbonsPhiladelphia$8K
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.