Aryan Meknat, MD
Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1225480163
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.8%), travel and lodging and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 26.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,781 and has fallen 70.4% since, to $1,120 in 2025.
Across 88 payments — averaging $99.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Bolton Medical Inc$933
- AstraZeneca$660
- Atricure, Inc.$596
- plus $1K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$1,12513%
- Travel & lodging$3,16036%
- Food & beverage$3,93645%
- Education$5626%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 37 | $2,367 |
| Medtronic | 16 | $1,912 |
| Abbott | 1 | $1,125 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 5 | $933 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $660 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 7 | $596 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $486 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 2 | $304 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $136 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $86 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,279
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$685
- CHARTIS CATHETER$304
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$304
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$304
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$304
- Impella$166
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$159
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$159
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$147
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$112
How this compares
$8,784 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,424 surgery 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.
Other surgery in Pittsburgh
- Andy KiserPittsburgh$1M
- 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
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.