Alesia Kaplan
Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1245474436
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $1,886,269 of the $1,888,918 with a category attached, or 99.9%. Vitalant accounts for 90.7% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among anatomic pathology & clinical pathology clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 72 payments — averaging $26,235 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vitalant$1.7M
- Institute For Transfusion Medicine$172K
- Cerus Corporation$2K
- Itxm Clinical Services$600
- Baxter Healthcare$124
- Sanofi$43
Across 20 payments — averaging $9131.80 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Cerus Corporation$183K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,886,269100%
- Travel & lodging$2,1420%
- Food & beverage$5060%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vitalant | 63 | $1,714,069 |
| Institute For Transfusion Medicine | 1 | $171,600 |
| Cerus Corporation | 3 | $2,482 |
| Itxm Clinical Services | 3 | $600 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $124 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $43 |
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
$1,888,918 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 357 anatomic pathology & clinical pathology providers in Pennsylvania.
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Other anatomic pathology & clinical pathology in Pittsburgh
- Suzanne BakdashPittsburgh$888K
- Matthew HannaPittsburgh$36K
- Brittany CodyPittsburgh$10K
- Chengquan ZhaoPittsburgh$6K
- Simion ChioseaPittsburgh$3K
- Marina NikiforovaPittsburgh$3K
- Alexander StraitPittsburgh$2K
- Raja SeethalaPittsburgh$2K
- Alexis BousamraPittsburgh$2K
- Yuri NikiforovPittsburgh$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.