Elias Shattahi, MD
Infectious Disease · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1245495605
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 23 payments — averaging $208.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$4K
- Viiv Healthcare Company$88
- Insmed, Inc.$79
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$58
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$38
- Merck$31
- plus $28 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,14066%
- Travel & lodging$1,00521%
- Food & beverage$62713%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 8 | $4,463 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $88 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $58 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Merck | 2 | $31 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $28 |
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.
- Biktarvy$4,270
How this compares
$4,785 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 457 infectious 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala | 259 | $987,054 |
| TivicayDolutegravir Sodium | 121 | $294,977 |
| DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam | 104 | $222,701 |
| SerostimSomatropin | 11 | $220,855 |
| DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine | 57 | $158,315 |
| JulucaDolutegravir/Rilpivirine | 25 | $84,657 |
| PifeltroDoravirine | 25 | $43,968 |
| IsentressRaltegravir Potassium | 15 | $27,424 |
| Vancomycin Hcl | 32 | $6,196 |
| PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated | 12 | $5,161 |
| Cefadroxil | 143 | $3,487 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 22 | $2,826 |
| Cefazolin Sodium | 28 | $1,901 |
| CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium | 11 | $1,694 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 29 | $1,275 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GileadBiktarvy, Descovy | $4,463 | $1,209,755363 claims |
| Viiv Healthcare CompanyTivicay, Dovato, Juluca | $88 | $537,948203 claims |
| MerckPifeltro, Isentress | $31 | $71,39240 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 80th percentile of 457 infectious disease providers in Pennsylvania.
Other infectious disease in Pittsburgh
- Ghady HaidarPittsburgh$3.7M
- Sharon RiddlerPittsburgh$1.6M
- Chiu Bin HsiaoPittsburgh$1.6M
- Fernanda SilveiraPittsburgh$1.4M
- Minh-Hong NguyenPittsburgh$1.4M
- Amesh AdaljaPittsburgh$415K
- Micah JacobsPittsburgh$237K
- Booth WainscoatPittsburgh$139K
- Brandon SmithPittsburgh$108K
- Yohei DoiPittsburgh$78K
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.