Harry Heck
Internal Medicine · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1811959513
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 139 payments — averaging $21.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$525
- Lilly USA, LLC$465
- GSK$407
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$189
- Pfizer$185
- AstraZeneca$151
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$30%
- Food & beverage$2,91398%
- Education$231%
- Gifts$472%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 23 | $525 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 19 | $465 |
| GSK | 18 | $407 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $189 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $185 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $151 |
| Novartis | 8 | $150 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $149 |
| Amgen | 7 | $149 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 12 | $144 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $92 |
| Merck | 6 | $75 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $64 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Tosoh Bioscience, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $35 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $14 |
| Vyera Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- ANORO$125
- PREVNAR - 13$121
- Tresiba$113
- MYRBETRIQ$112
- Ozempic$109
How this compares
$2,986 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Other internal medicine in Pittsburgh
- Siddharth ShethPittsburgh$11M
- Liza VillaruzPittsburgh$6.6M
- Raman PurighallaPittsburgh$3.9M
- Annie ImPittsburgh$1.2M
- Manisha JhambPittsburgh$1.1M
- Enrico NovelliPittsburgh$397K
- Donald MiddletonPittsburgh$258K
- Thomas CurleyPittsburgh$213K
- Sandra SobelPittsburgh$178K
- Jonathan EpsteinPhiladelphia$13.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.