Industry payments to physicians · Pennsylvania · 2024

Pennsylvania

In Pennsylvania, drug and device makers reported $105M in general payments to 42,887 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $2,457 each — plus $266M tied to research and $13M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.

$105M

general payments

42,887

covered recipients paid

$2,457

mean per physician

Top specialties in Pennsylvania

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Orthopaedic Surgery $12M $15,276/phys

Unspecified $7M $4,537/phys

Cardiovascular Disease $4M $4,013/phys

Neurology $3M $6,555/phys

Internal Medicine $3M $1,297/phys

Neurological Surgery $3M $10,576/phys

Gastroenterology $3M $4,280/phys

Pulmonary Disease $3M $6,842/phys

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery $3M $60,930/phys

Hematology & Oncology $3M $5,768/phys

Psychiatry $3M $3,842/phys

Family Medicine $3M $1,019/phys

Highest-paid physicians in Pennsylvania

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

William Hozack Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Bensalem · top payer: Stryker Corporation $2M

Nancy Snyderman Otolaryngology · Philadelphia · top payer: Axonics, Inc. $1M

Mark Lazarus Orthopaedic Surgery · Bensalem · top payer: Stryker Corporation $1M

James Bradley Unspecified · Pittsburgh · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $1M

Gerald Williams Orthopaedic Surgery · Bryn Mawr · top payer: ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $874,802

Samir Mehta Orthopaedic Surgery · Philadelphia · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $694,444

John Fischer Plastic Surgery · Philadelphia · top payer: Davol Inc. $685,829

Selene Parekh Orthopaedic Surgery · Bensalem · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $682,884

David Horn Infectious Disease · Philadelphia · top payer: AstraZeneca UK Limited $648,357

Corey Anolik Unspecified · Philadelphia · top payer: Align Technology, Inc. $638,999

Lawrence Crossett Unspecified · Pittsburgh · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $631,414

Amer Samdani Neurological Surgery · Philadelphia · top payer: Highridge Medical LLC $622,263

Joseph Abboud Orthopaedic Surgery · Philadelphia · top payer: ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $615,917

Alexander Vaccaro Orthopaedic Surgery · Philadelphia · top payer: Stryker Corporation $582,508

Jonathan Garino Orthopaedic Surgery · Malvern · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $566,160

Javad Parvizi Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Philadelphia · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $546,469

John Fenlin Orthopaedic Surgery · Philadelphia · top payer: Stryker Corporation $536,693

Peter Sharkey Orthopaedic Surgery · King Of Prussia · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $521,466

Sam Akhavan Sports Medicine · Pittsburgh · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $508,496

Darrell Triulzi Unspecified · Pittsburgh · top payer: Vitalant $494,444

Rebecca Roma Psychiatry · Pittsburgh · top payer: Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $482,251

Douglas Kress Unspecified · Wexford · top payer: Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $469,532

Stephen Hess Dermatology · Philadelphia · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $447,741

Lirong Qu Unspecified · Pittsburgh · top payer: Vitalant $409,507

Robert Nelson Psychiatry · Wyomissing · top payer: ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) $408,743

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Pennsylvania — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.