Daniel Kass, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1629176995
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $2,653 of the $2,806 with a category attached, or 94.6%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Boehringer Ingelheim. 2024 is the largest year on record at $1,937, more than ten times the $74 reported in 2019.
Across 5 payments — averaging $561.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$3K
Across 2 payments — averaging $131,956 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.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$264K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,65395%
- Food & beverage$1535%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $2,806 |
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.
- OFEV$2,653
How this compares
$2,806 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 703 pulmonary disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 37 | $462,349 |
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 31 | $436,985 |
| Humira(Cf)Adalimumab | 12 | $80,247 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 30 | $17,268 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 26 | $16,705 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 19 | $12,183 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 11 | $5,141 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 25 | $4,123 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 28 | $2,848 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 63 | $1,446 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 34 | $655 |
| Prednisone | 104 | $560 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 21 | $140 |
| Omeprazole | 21 | $136 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 22 | $125 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimOfev, Spiriva Respimat | $2,806 | $474,53256 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 65th percentile of 703 pulmonary disease providers in Pennsylvania.
Other pulmonary disease in Pittsburgh
- Tariq CheemaPittsburgh$549K
- Stephen BashedaPittsburgh$455K
- Khalid MalikPittsburgh$144K
- Patrick StrolloPittsburgh$124K
- Frank SciurbaPittsburgh$119K
- Sohini GhoshPittsburgh$112K
- Brian CarlinPittsburgh$102K
- Lewis KlinePittsburgh$99K
- Sally WenzelPittsburgh$70K
- Michael ApostolisPittsburgh$61K
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.