Thomas Pinto
Cardiovascular Disease · Butler, PANPI 1104827872
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 196 payments — averaging $13.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$471
- Amgen$414
- Johnson & Johnson$332
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$226
- AstraZeneca$194
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$152
- plus $769 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,54199%
- Education$181%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 34 | $471 |
| Amgen | 31 | $414 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 39 | $332 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 19 | $226 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $194 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 12 | $152 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $95 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $90 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $89 |
| Abbott | 4 | $71 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $64 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $38 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $30 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $29 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $19 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Gilead | 1 | $14 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$2,560 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.
Other cardiovascular disease in Butler
- Sunder RaoButler$327K
- Danielle DuffyPhiladelphia$29.5M
- Venkatesh NadarCamp Hill$18.3M
- Hemal GadaWormleysburg$6.7M
- Brian DrachmanPhiladelphia$3.8M
- William BachinskyMechanicsburg$2.3M
- Bonnie KyPhiladelphia$1.9M
- Benjamin KalsmithPgh$1.7M
- Marielle Scherrer CrosbiePhiladelphia$1.6M
- Paul GrenaYardley$1.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.