Has Edward McClain, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,179 in general payments to Edward McClain, MD across 14 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 Edward McClain, MD 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 Edward McClain, MD 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.

Edward McClain, MD

Orthopedic Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1518932243

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 14 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 41.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $261 and has fallen 60.5% since, to $103 in 2025.

$1,179in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $84.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$490
Stryker$303
Johnson & Johnson$228
Smith+Nephew$158

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,179100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Zimmer Biomet	5	$490
Stryker	4	$303
Johnson & Johnson	3	$228
Smith+Nephew	2	$158

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

$1,179 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 43 orthopedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$226,169

Medicare patients

393

Services billed

3,011

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
Mupirocin	245	$1,217
Meloxicam	363	$1,006
Ibuprofen	28	$362
Gabapentin	65	$340
Amoxicillin	123	$262
Diclofenac Sodium	13	$255
Oxycodone Hcl	49	$238
Celecoxib	18	$238
IbuIbuprofen	19	$205
Methylprednisolone	32	$161
Clindamycin Hcl	31	$85
Prednisone	21	$52
Naproxen	14	$44
Cephalexin	14	$33
Metronidazole	22	$19

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopedic surgery in Pittsburgh

James BradleyPittsburgh$5.2M
Carl HasselmanPittsburgh$719K
Richard McGoughPittsburgh$261K
Vincent SilvaggioPittsburgh$179K
Patrick SmithPittsburgh$20K
Alex KlinePittsburgh$8K
Trenton GausePittsburgh$4K
Mark RodoskyPittsburgh$2K
William DonaldsonPittsburgh$1K
Aaron TaylorPittsburgh$1K

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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.

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