RxDoctor Payments Data

Siddharth Sheth

Internal Medicine · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1982947008

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (59.8%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Exelixis Inc. at 41.0% of the total. Among internal 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.

$33,256in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 63 payments — averaging $527.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Exelixis Inc.$14K
  • Coherus Oncology, Inc.$11K
  • Eisai Inc.$5K
  • Merck$1K
  • AstraZeneca$831
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$735
  • plus $584 from 3 others
$11,005,886in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 212 payments — averaging $51,915 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.

  • Merck$10M
  • Beigene, Ltd.$312K
  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$188K
  • AstraZeneca$184K
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$100K
  • Exelixis Inc.$82K
  • plus $115K from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$5,06915%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$19,87560%
  • Travel & lodging$6,34019%
  • Food & beverage$1,9726%

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

$33,256 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$50,717
Medicare patients
115
Services billed
616

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
LenvimaLenvatinib Mesylate35$842,787
MekinistTrametinib Dimethyl Sulfoxide46$582,921
TafinlarDabrafenib Mesylate46$486,789
EliquisApixaban12$6,261
Levothyroxine Sodium69$680
Gabapentin11$408
Prochlorperazine Maleate22$257
Oxycodone Hcl19$220
Ondansetron Hcl22$122
Prednisone25$83

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
Eisai Inc.Lenvima$5,204$842,78735 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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