RxDoctor Payments Data

Chiu Bin Hsiao, MD

Infectious Disease · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1699714170

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.1%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Viiv Healthcare Company accounts for 92.7% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $11,760 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $65 in 2024. Among infectious disease clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$32,816in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $1058.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Viiv Healthcare Company$30K
  • Theratechnologies Inc.$2K
  • Gilead$880
  • Accelerate Diagnostics Inc.$26
$1,528,492in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 260 payments — averaging $5878.82 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.

  • Viiv Healthcare Company$1.2M
  • Gilead$219K
  • GSK$71K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$19,39559%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$11,80036%
  • Travel & lodging$1,3434%
  • Food & beverage$2781%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Viiv Healthcare Company26$30,410
Theratechnologies Inc.1$1,500
Gilead1$880
Accelerate Diagnostics Inc.3$26

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

$32,816 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 457 infectious disease providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$14,308
Medicare patients
41
Services billed
222

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
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala555$1,990,940
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium412$830,108
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam335$656,821
DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine77$210,796
CabenuvaCabotegravir/Rilpivirine29$177,756
OdefseyEmtricitab/Rilpiviri/Tenof Ala41$134,492
JulucaDolutegravir/Rilpivirine38$120,162
PifeltroDoravirine52$78,733
JardianceEmpagliflozin52$28,466
EliquisApixaban37$20,093
EdurantRilpivirine Hcl11$15,742
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate22$11,546
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan13$7,183
MyrbetriqMirabegron15$6,521
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide13$6,449

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
GileadBiktarvy, Descovy$880$2,647,761890 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyTivicay, Dovato, Cabenuva, Juluca$30,410$1,338,822556 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 457 infectious disease providers in Pennsylvania.

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