Has Dorian Kusyk received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $77,114 in general payments to Dorian Kusyk across 157 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 Dorian Kusyk 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 Dorian Kusyk 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.

Dorian Kusyk

Neurological Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1740712967

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $62,500 of the $77,114 with a category attached, or 81.0%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 57.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $33,079 and has fallen 69.4% since, to $10,113 in 2025. Among neurological surgery 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.

$77,114in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 157 payments — averaging $491.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$44K
Medtronic$25K
Abbott$4K
Zimmer Biomet$2K
VB Spine LLC$1K
Stryker$381
plus $446 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Grants$62,50081%
Travel & lodging$8,31611%
Food & beverage$6,2988%

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
Boston Scientific	16	$44,077
Medtronic	63	$24,741
Abbott	40	$4,131
Zimmer Biomet	6	$1,858
VB Spine LLC	18	$1,481
Stryker	6	$381
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$147
Neuropace, Inc.	1	$132
Aesculap, Inc.	3	$103
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$23
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$21
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$20

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

$77,114 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 390 neurological surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Tramadol Hcl	15	$23

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Pittsburgh

Adam KanterPittsburgh$2.6M
David OkonkwoPittsburgh$2.3M
Constantinos HadjipanayisPittsburgh$484K
Bradley GrossPittsburgh$135K
Jody LeonardoPittsburgh$116K
David HamiltonPittsburgh$66K
Jorge Gonzalez-MartinezPittsburgh$65K
Alejandro CastellviPittsburgh$61K
Ivo PetoePittsburgh$56K
Matthew ShepardPittsburgh$41K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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