George Eid, MD
Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1992778393
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $415,429 of the $618,592 with a category attached, or 67.2%. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Novo Nordisk at 38.5% of the total. Among surgery clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 713 payments — averaging $867.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$238K
- Lilly USA, LLC$144K
- Medtronic$132K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$32K
- Johnson & Johnson$21K
- Covidien LP$20K
- plus $33K from 19 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $4500.00 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.
- Medtronic$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$119,11619%
- Speaking & faculty fees$415,42967%
- Travel & lodging$46,3417%
- Food & beverage$28,1495%
- Education$9,5562%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 186 | $238,094 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 119 | $143,522 |
| Medtronic | 174 | $132,151 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 67 | $31,898 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 13 | $20,774 |
| Covidien LP | 22 | $19,597 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 20 | $11,766 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 21 | $8,407 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 16 | $2,921 |
| Novo Nordisk AS | 3 | $2,748 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 26 | $2,033 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 2 | $1,601 |
| Davol Inc. | 16 | $809 |
| Cequr Corporation | 4 | $377 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $367 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $314 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 3 | $210 |
| Distalmotion US | 2 | $208 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $195 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $146 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $121 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $118 |
| GT Metabolic Solutions Inc | 1 | $93 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
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.
- Wegovy$144,741
- ZEPBOUND$136,279
- Saxenda$91,056
- Signia$24,148
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$14,053
- Da Vinci Surgical System$11,185
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$11,133
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$10,620
- Echelon Flex$10,369
- Senhance Manipulator Arm$8,054
- Senhance Cockpit$8,054
- Senhance Node$8,054
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$7,116
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$5,879
- Product in Development$2,360
- Ozempic$2,176
- LigaSure$1,525
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$772
- Sonicision$414
- CeQur Simplicity$292
How this compares
$618,592 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,424 surgery 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.
Other surgery in Pittsburgh
- Andy KiserPittsburgh$1M
- Ariel AballayPittsburgh$198K
- Blair JobePittsburgh$150K
- Philip SchauerPittsburgh$94K
- Abhinav HumarPittsburgh$57K
- Eric HagerPittsburgh$41K
- Matthew NealPittsburgh$34K
- Derek Serna-GallegosPittsburgh$32K
- Kellie CunninghamPittsburgh$28K
- Schae SaravitzPittsburgh$27K
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.