Aaron Kulick, MD
Nephrology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1568481794
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 49 payments — averaging $62.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$183
- Vifor Pharma, Inc.$153
- Akebia Therapeutics Inc$87
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$79
- Amgen$70
- plus $114 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,25074%
- Food & beverage$51517%
- Education$2779%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 10 | $2,355 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 15 | $183 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 10 | $153 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 5 | $87 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $79 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $70 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $18 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$3,042 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 586 nephrology providers in Pennsylvania.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Calcium Acetate | 16 | $340 |
| Losartan Potassium | 16 | $283 |
| Calcitriol | 19 | $226 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 33 | $199 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 23 | $164 |
| Carvedilol | 14 | $131 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Pittsburgh
- Christopher GislerPittsburgh$757K
- Swati AroraPittsburgh$388K
- Kelly LiangPittsburgh$208K
- Khaled NasharPittsburgh$198K
- Linda FriedPittsburgh$112K
- Mohan RamkumarPittsburgh$53K
- Katalin SusztakPhiladelphia$4.8M
- Debbie Cohen SteinPhiladelphia$2.8M
- Nelson KopytAllentown$2.1M
- Iris LeePhiladelphia$1.9M
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.