Who Paid My Doc
Michael Palumbo
Allergy Pittsburgh, PA Medical Doctor
NPI 1083662720 CMS profile 276297
180 Fort Couch Rd, Suite 375, Pittsburgh, PA 15241
General payments
$561,444
Research payments
$12,287
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$3,888,754
Through program year 2025, Michael Palumbo of Pittsburgh, PA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $561,444 across 1,109 general payments and $12,287 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $3,888,754 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Allergy profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
10 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $158,263 | 325 | |
| 2025 | Research | $7,864 | 3 | |
| 2024 | General | $122,068 | 243 | |
| 2024 | Research | $4,308 | 11 | |
| 2023 | General | $91,572 | 242 | |
| 2022 | General | $48,738 | 114 | |
| 2021 | General | $41,065 | 51 | |
| 2020 | General | $23,486 | 30 | |
| 2019 | General | $76,251 | 104 | |
| 2019 | Research | $115 | 3 |
Beside peers
- Michael Palumbo
- Allergy median
- Middle half of Allergy
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Michael Palumbo were reported at $158,263. Among 526 Allergy profiles paid that year, the median was $1,143 and the middle half received between $226 and $2,504.
Show as a table
| Year | Michael Palumbo | Allergy median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $76,251 | $506 | $151–$1,337 | $163 |
| 2020 | $23,486 | $409 | $108–$1,162 | $114 |
| 2021 | $41,065 | $549 | $125–$1,485 | $132 |
| 2022 | $48,738 | $666 | $161–$1,594 | $149 |
| 2023 | $91,572 | $780 | $186–$1,916 | $160 |
| 2024 | $122,068 | $1,031 | $271–$2,196 | $164 |
| 2025 | $158,263 | $1,143 | $226–$2,504 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 31 drugsPart D claims
1,292
Drug cost
$553,597
Branded share of claims
29.6%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glassia Alpha-1-Proteinase Inhibitor | Brand | 11 | $90,463 | |
| Xolair Omalizumab | Brand | 17 | $75,832 | |
| Fasenra Pen Benralizumab | Brand | 13 | $74,197 | |
| Xembify Immune Globulin,gamma(Igg)klhw | Brand | 13 | $74,189 | |
| Rinvoq Upadacitinib | Brand | 12 | $73,202 | |
| Trelegy Ellipta Fluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | Brand | 61 | $55,873 | |
| Breo Ellipta Fluticasone/Vilanterol | Brand | 23 | $17,002 | |
| Arnuity Ellipta Fluticasone Furoate | Brand | 46 | $15,459 | |
| Cromolyn Sodium | Generic | 13 | $15,324 | |
| Breztri Aerosphere Budesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | Brand | 15 | $12,812 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 31 counted.
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 3,579 Part D prescribers listed as Allergy/ Immunology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 27 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$38,502
Medicare patients
273
Services billed
3,651
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 64% | |
| Arthritis | 54% | |
| Osteoporosis | 22% | |
| Diabetes | 21% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 16% | |
| Cancer | 14% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 13% | |
| COPD | 13% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle 90653 | Office | 12 | 12 | $982 |
Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.
Payments and prescribing
First 5 of 25 products · payments 2024Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DUPIXENT |
|
$37,000 | — | — |
| AIRSUPRA |
|
$19,218 | — | — |
| TEZSPIRE |
|
$13,482 | — | — |
| Xembify |
|
$12,295 | 13 | — |
| Hizentra |
|
$10,203 | — | — |
A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.