Has Andy Kiser, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,009,564 in general payments to Andy Kiser, MD across 506 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 Andy Kiser, MD 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 Andy Kiser, MD 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.

Andy Kiser, MD

Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1396759460

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.5%), grants and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 41.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $285,604 and has fallen 53.0% since, to $134,322 in 2025. Among surgery 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.

$1,009,564in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 506 payments — averaging $1995.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$418K
Angiodynamics, Inc.$224K
Edwards Lifesciences$163K
Medtronic$116K
Abbott$77K
Spiration, Inc.$7K
plus $6K from 22 others

$106,868in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $5343.38 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.

Edwards Lifesciences$103K
Atricure, Inc.$3K
Abbott$800

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$499,47849%
Speaking & faculty fees$112,66311%
Grants$350,75035%
Travel & lodging$29,1023%
Food & beverage$15,0871%
Education$2,4860%

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
Atricure, Inc.	79	$418,446
Angiodynamics, Inc.	7	$223,763
Edwards Lifesciences	152	$162,565
Medtronic(3 entities)	133	$115,872
Abbott	74	$76,677
Spiration, Inc.	7	$6,677
Philips North America LLC	2	$3,874
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	6	$213
Abiomed	2	$194
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	6	$170
CSL Behring	8	$161
Boston Scientific	1	$159
LSI Solutions Inc	2	$132
Corcym Inc	6	$128
Johnson & Johnson	4	$112
Werfen USA LLC	1	$65
Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC	2	$62
Teleflex LLC	2	$61
Baxter Healthcare	1	$58
Biomerieux Inc	2	$31
Smith+Nephew	1	$28
Livanova USA, Inc.	2	$24
Olympus America Inc.	1	$22
Cvrx, Inc.	1	$18
Cerus Corporation	1	$17
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$17
Pfizer	1	$13
Hemosonics LLC	1	$7

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.

SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$396,024
Avalus$110,511
AngioVac$16,725
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$16,650
VANTAGEVIEW$16,463
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$13,545
TENDYNE$9,625
NAVITOR$9,575
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$9,456
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$7,675
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$4,050
(9520) IGT Devices Undivided$3,850
ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$2,600
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$2,179
JETi All In One Non-Sterile Kit$1,938
SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$1,725
Portico Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valve$1,500
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$740
Tendyne Mitral Valve System$700
Epic$537

How this compares

$1,009,564 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$70,369

Medicare patients

Services billed

217

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
Furosemide	13	$48

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Pittsburgh

George EidPittsburgh$619K
Ariel AballayPittsburgh$198K
Blair JobePittsburgh$150K
Philip SchauerPittsburgh$94K
Abhinav HumarPittsburgh$57K
Eric HagerPittsburgh$41K
Matthew NealPittsburgh$34K
Derek Serna-GallegosPittsburgh$32K
Kellie CunninghamPittsburgh$28K
Schae SaravitzPittsburgh$27K

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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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