Bassel Sayegh, MD
Internal Medicine · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1568711000
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 305 payments — averaging $252.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$37K
- Boston Scientific$33K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$896
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$597
- plus $2K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,0004%
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,02525%
- Grants$27,95336%
- Travel & lodging$10,70914%
- Food & beverage$15,49520%
- Education$7461%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 74 | $37,070 |
| Boston Scientific | 166 | $33,338 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 12 | $2,104 |
| Abbott | 19 | $1,357 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 10 | $896 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $597 |
| Baylis Medical Company Inc | 4 | $491 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 7 | $454 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $261 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $111 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $98 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $58 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
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.
- WATCHMAN Access System$16,255
- Watchman$3,944
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$3,557
- GENERAL BRADY$1,257
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,209
- Rhythmia Mapping System$1,187
- GENERAL EP$1,108
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$1,058
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$793
- Arctic Front$770
- CARDIOBLATE CRYOFLEX$743
- Micra$664
- ARCTIC FRONT ADVANCE$600
- Carto 3 System$597
- GENERAL TACHY$588
- Carto 3$504
- WATCHMAN FLX$464
- Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$388
- NRG needle$352
- Farapulse$319
How this compares
$76,929 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 49 | $39,857 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 58 | $1,380 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 60 | $788 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 13 | $355 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 24 | $341 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 12 | $187 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 12 | $115 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Pittsburgh
- Siddharth ShethPittsburgh$11M
- Liza VillaruzPittsburgh$6.6M
- Raman PurighallaPittsburgh$3.9M
- Annie ImPittsburgh$1.2M
- Manisha JhambPittsburgh$1.1M
- Enrico NovelliPittsburgh$397K
- Donald MiddletonPittsburgh$258K
- Thomas CurleyPittsburgh$213K
- Sandra SobelPittsburgh$178K
- Jonathan EpsteinPhiladelphia$13.1M
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.