Medical Toxicology in Pennsylvania
10 providers, $1,745 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays medical toxicology clinicians in Pennsylvania
Across 6 medical toxicology clinicians in Pennsylvania who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $288,317 in total — an average of $48,053 each, of which $48,053 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Richard ChenPhiladelphia$571
- 2David LeeYork$503
- 3Greg SwartzentruberHarrisburg$389
- 4Vincent CerettoPittsburgh$118
- 5Ronald KirschnerHarrisburg$52
- 6Robert CannonBethlehem$39
- 7Joseph YantaPittsburgh$21
- 8Bryan MolesMeadville$21
- 9Ryan SurmaitisAllentown$18
- 10Thomas NappeAllentown$13