RxDoctor Payments Data

Andrew Sahud, MD

Infectious Disease · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1184626608

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,504in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 71 payments — averaging $21.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$361
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$323
  • Merck$252
  • Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$177
  • Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$125
  • Insmed, Inc.$72
  • plus $195 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,31788%
  • Education$18712%

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

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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.

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

$1,504 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 457 infectious disease providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$239,504
Medicare patients
364
Services billed
31,167

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Daptomycin19$6,499
Cefadroxil48$2,466
Cefazolin Sodium11$1,089
Doxycycline Hyclate53$973
CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium13$915
Cephalexin49$512
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim25$220
Ciprofloxacin Hcl17$156

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other infectious disease in Pittsburgh

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