Harshad Mehta
Cardiovascular Disease · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1942281217
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 117 payments — averaging $16.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$352
- Novartis$291
- Biotronik Inc.$272
- Pfizer$255
- Amgen$147
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$123
- plus $480 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,84996%
- Education$704%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 24 | $352 |
| Novartis | 19 | $291 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 8 | $272 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $255 |
| Amgen | 9 | $147 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 10 | $123 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 8 | $111 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $71 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $47 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $37 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $26 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $21 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,920 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.
Other cardiovascular disease in Pittsburgh
- Stephen ChanPittsburgh$1.2M
- Rewat CholapraneePittsburgh$598K
- George GabrielPittsburgh$584K
- Indu PoornimaPittsburgh$422K
- Brian HenryPittsburgh$269K
- Timothy WongPittsburgh$265K
- Mark GreathousePittsburgh$243K
- Danielle DuffyPhiladelphia$29.5M
- Venkatesh NadarCamp Hill$18.3M
- Hemal GadaWormleysburg$6.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.