Theodore Laetsch
Pediatrics · Philadelphia, PANPI 1154477834
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 441 payments — averaging $9855.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$1.3M
- Novartis$875K
- Pfizer$762K
- Bayer$401K
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$232K
- Merck$202K
- plus $575K from 12 others
Across 25 payments — averaging $1233.20 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.
- Novartis$12K
- Eli Lilly$10K
- Novartis Pharma AG$6K
- GSK$1K
- Pfizer$1K
- AbbVie$61
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$27,11659%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,7008%
- Travel & lodging$13,91530%
- Food & beverage$1,0772%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 104 | $1,298,181 |
| Novartis | 51 | $875,346 |
| Pfizer | 81 | $762,318 |
| Bayer | 99 | $401,499 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 11 | $232,320 |
| Merck | 14 | $202,060 |
| AbbVie | 17 | $134,162 |
| Eli Lilly | 10 | $111,597 |
| Institut DE Recherches Internationales Servier | 14 | $83,525 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 7 | $67,020 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 12 | $61,744 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 6 | $44,926 |
| Amgen | 3 | $33,323 |
| Foundation Medicine, Inc. | 3 | $15,000 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $10,655 |
| GSK | 4 | $8,862 |
| Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $2,750 |
| Taiho Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $1,100 |
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
$4,346,389 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,849 pediatrics providers in Pennsylvania.
Other pediatrics in Philadelphia
- Jennifer CohenPhiladelphia$214K
- Matthew EliasPhiladelphia$110K
- Levon UtidjianPhiladelphia$94K
- Kristopher BossePhiladelphia$90K
- Binita Kamath PatelPhiladelphia$80K
- Beth MoughanPhiladelphia$64K
- Kandace GollompPhiladelphia$59K
- Roberta LaguerrePhiladelphia$44K
- Pamela McDonnellPhiladelphia$42K
- Elizabeth FogliaPhiladelphia$27K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.