William Zillweger, MD
Internal Medicine · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1285607002
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 357 payments — averaging $15.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$968
- Novo Nordisk$553
- Medtronic$329
- Amgen$323
- AstraZeneca$234
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,34799%
- Gifts$471%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 70 | $1,260 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 53 | $968 |
| Novo Nordisk | 49 | $553 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 27 | $329 |
| Amgen | 33 | $323 |
| AstraZeneca | 16 | $234 |
| Abbott | 12 | $224 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 13 | $206 |
| Merck | 14 | $165 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 11 | $157 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $124 |
| Novartis | 9 | $122 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 7 | $121 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 5 | $92 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $73 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $70 |
| Tosoh Bioscience, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $26 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| GSK | 1 | $18 |
| Bayer | 1 | $17 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $15 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $14 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $13 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Morphabond ER$121
- INJECTAFER$113
How this compares
$5,394 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,705 internal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 295 | $115,506 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 88 | $28,605 |
| AptiomEslicarbazepine Acetate | 24 | $22,811 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 47 | $22,744 |
| Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate | 11 | $20,663 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 51 | $12,721 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 15 | $9,121 |
| Mirabegron ErMirabegron | 13 | $4,361 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 73 | $3,516 |
| Sucralfate | 18 | $3,462 |
| Potassium Chloride | 64 | $2,888 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 176 | $2,830 |
| Autoshield Duo Pen NeedlePen Needle,dual Safety,diabetc | 24 | $2,390 |
| Unifine Safecontrol Pen NeedlePen Needle,dual Safety,diabetc | 40 | $2,306 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 70 | $2,251 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis, Nurtec Odt | $124 | $136,169306 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $968 | $28,60588 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $15 | $22,74447 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $122 | $9,12115 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 90th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Other internal medicine in Pittsburgh
- Siddharth ShethPittsburgh$11M
- Liza VillaruzPittsburgh$6.6M
- Raman PurighallaPittsburgh$3.9M
- Annie ImPittsburgh$1.2M
- Manisha JhambPittsburgh$1.1M
- Enrico NovelliPittsburgh$397K
- Donald MiddletonPittsburgh$258K
- Thomas CurleyPittsburgh$213K
- Sandra SobelPittsburgh$178K
- Jonathan EpsteinPhiladelphia$13.1M
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.