Top Internal Medicine in Pennsylvania by Industry Payments

This analysis ranks the top internal medicine practitioners in Pennsylvania by total payments received from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, based on CMS Open Payments data. The 20 providers listed here collectively received $18,857,170 over the covered period.

Data source: CMS Open Payments + Medicare Part B Coverage: 2021–2023 Providers analyzed: 20 State: Pennsylvania
$18,857,170
Total Industry Payments
Across all providers in this analysis
20
Providers Analyzed
With at least one payment on record
$485,286
Median Total Payments
Half of providers received more, half received less
Context: Industry payments to physicians are legally required to be disclosed under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Receiving payments does not imply wrongdoing. Payments may reflect consulting expertise, research participation, or speaking engagements. This data is provided to support transparency, not to render clinical judgments.

Top Internal Medicine by Total Industry Payments — Pennsylvania

CMS Open Payments
# Provider Total Payments Companies Years Active
1
Pitamber Devgon
Philadelphia, PA
$7,503,853
1 2021–2023
2
David Horn
Philadelphia, PA
$1,675,534
6 2019–2024
3
Philadelphia, PA
$1,551,086
11 2018–2024
4
Du Bois, PA
$1,182,868
64 2018–2024
5
Pittsburgh, PA
$891,716
36 2018–2024
6
Mohammed Kidwai
Bala Cynwyd, PA
$677,204
4 2018–2024
7
Philadelphia, PA
$599,743
45 2018–2024
8
David Goldmann
Philadelphia, PA
$533,896
2 2018–2024
9
Cheryl Pegus
Spring House, PA
$492,290
2 2018–2021
10
Philadelphia, PA
$485,286
43 2018–2024
11
Pittsburgh, PA
$443,443
20 2018–2024
12
Danville, PA
$402,824
14 2018–2024
13
Erie, PA
$344,165
10 2018–2024
14
Allentown, PA
$341,714
38 2018–2024
15
Philadelphia, PA
$341,014
11 2018–2024
16
Norristown, PA
$304,900
5 2020–2024
17
Allentown, PA
$295,549
10 2018–2024
18
Scranton, PA
$284,698
32 2018–2024
19
Cheswick, PA
$256,630
54 2018–2024
20
Jefferson Hills, PA
$248,757
74 2018–2024

State payment context — Internal Medicine in Pennsylvania

CMS Open Payments

Beyond the top recipients listed above, 5,609 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania have at least one disclosed industry payment, totaling $42,350,896 (2018–2024).

The median internal medicine provider in Pennsylvania received $321 in total payments, versus a national median of $406 for the same specialty.

Payments to this specialty in Pennsylvania peaked in 2021, when $11,694,749 changed hands across 47,982 transactions. Becton, Dickinson and Company has been the largest single payer over the period, and Philadelphia leads all Pennsylvania cities in payment volume for this specialty.

Top companies paying Internal Medicine providers in Pennsylvania

Company Total payments Providers paid Transactions
Becton, Dickinson and Company $7,510,492 56 143
Novo Nordisk Inc $2,205,931 1,498 37,149
PFIZER INC. $2,166,153 1,970 26,047
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $1,563,724 1,878 25,267
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. $1,520,057 84 312
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $1,456,657 1,932 22,134
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $1,101,384 1,331 23,294
Amgen Inc. $1,029,872 1,459 18,407

Industry payments to Internal Medicine providers in Pennsylvania by year

Year Total payments Providers paid Transactions
2018 $5,127,989 2,935 71,258
2019 $5,390,901 2,863 67,216
2020 $3,715,171 2,201 38,284
2021 $11,694,749 2,435 47,982
2022 $5,053,022 2,760 51,208
2023 $4,878,999 3,057 56,780
2024 $6,490,065 3,129 56,447

Top Pennsylvania cities for Internal Medicine industry payments

City Total payments Providers paid Transactions
Philadelphia $20,367,851 1,341 53,393
Pittsburgh $3,226,922 511 30,868
Allentown $1,361,911 228 8,511
Du Bois $1,198,608 13 2,431
Danville $962,216 85 2,863
Bala Cynwyd $914,781 12 1,383
Erie $681,350 98 5,631
Scranton $669,929 129 11,204
Methodology Providers filtered to Pennsylvania-licensed internal medicine practitioners (NPI taxonomy code 207R00000X) with at least one Open Payments record. Payments aggregated across all years and all payment types. Rankings reflect cumulative totals, not annualized figures. Data source: CMS Open Payments, accessed via doctransparency.com database.
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