Has Aaron Hellman, PA received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,651 in general payments to Aaron Hellman, PA across 46 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Aaron Hellman, PA did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Aaron Hellman, PA come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Aaron Hellman, PA

Surgical · Coraopolis, PANPI 1740660562

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (50.1%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC at 41.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,444 and has fallen 87.9% since, to $175 in 2025. Among surgical clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$3,651in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $79.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$2K
Arthrex$596
Smith+Nephew$477
Zimmer Biomet$184
Bioventus LLC$171
Stryker$141
plus $561 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$61117%
Food & beverage$1,82950%
Education$1,21133%

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
Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC	6	$1,521
Arthrex	13	$596
Smith+Nephew	7	$477
Zimmer Biomet	4	$184
Bioventus LLC	4	$171
Stryker	3	$141
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$136
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$122
Convatec Inc.	1	$119
Bsn Medical Inc	1	$99
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$35
Hydrofera LLC	1	$28
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$22

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.

How this compares

$3,651 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 626 surgical providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$12,425

Medicare patients

Services billed

362

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	12	$2,199
Celecoxib	167	$1,980
Diclofenac Sodium	122	$1,328
Doxycycline Hyclate	59	$954
Oxycodone Hcl	198	$946
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	63	$583
Methylprednisolone	48	$255
Naproxen	15	$235
Mupirocin	30	$193
Meloxicam	84	$161
Ondansetron Hcl	153	$161
Amoxicillin	83	$132
Ibuprofen	17	$120
Cephalexin	26	$96
Tramadol Hcl	16	$59

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgical in Coraopolis

Patsy SkablaWynnewood$188K
Kyle LangstonAllentown$50K
Aaron MacoskeyPittsburgh$40K
Elissa CastorPittsburgh$25K
Amanda YakobitisWynnewood$24K
Dustin HobbsWilkes Barre$15K
Leah KovalPittsburgh$13K
Maureen SchullerLancaster$12K
Margaryta TolchynskaMedia$11K
Dino SacchettiDickson City$10K

See the full list for Pennsylvania →

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.

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