William Sims
Pulmonary Disease · Jefferson Hills, PANPI 1790779494
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 81 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by GSK at 25.8% of the total.
Across 81 payments — averaging $17.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$356
- AstraZeneca$193
- Boehringer Ingelheim$158
- Grifols USA, LLC$135
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$109
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$87
- plus $344 from 11 others
Across 31 payments — averaging $7614.57 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.
- Philips North America LLC$153K
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$41K
- AstraZeneca$32K
- GSK$10K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,382100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 25 | $356 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $193 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 10 | $158 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 9 | $135 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $87 |
| Novartis | 4 | $65 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $42 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Resmed Corp | 1 | $31 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
| Gilead | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,382 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 703 pulmonary disease providers in Pennsylvania.
Other pulmonary disease in Jefferson Hills
- Sandeep Bansaldu Bois$1.4M
- Alan KanouffAltoona$809K
- Gerard CrinerPhiladelphia$657K
- Kenneth LanderUpland$647K
- Richard FriedenheimAbington$627K
- Thomas MeyerWynnewood$615K
- Surya BhattBethlehem$579K
- Tariq CheemaPittsburgh$549K
- Stephen KovacsErie$520K
- Michael ZlupkoAltoona$468K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.