Jacob Katsnelson
Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1952755639
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,857 of the $9,167 with a category attached, or 63.9%. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.6%.
Across 92 payments — averaging $99.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axogen$2K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$676
- RTI Surgical, Inc$572
- Baxter Healthcare$411
- plus $3K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1762%
- Grants$4985%
- Travel & lodging$2,49427%
- Food & beverage$5,85764%
- Education$1422%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axogen | 13 | $1,798 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 16 | $1,457 |
| Stryker | 13 | $1,132 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $676 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 4 | $572 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 8 | $411 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $404 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $377 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $313 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 3 | $252 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $243 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $231 |
| Synthes GmbH | 1 | $214 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 1 | $197 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $176 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $152 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $136 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $124 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $39 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- INTEGRA$3,280
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$1,724
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$1,099
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$1,099
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$1,093
- PRIMATRIX$1,093
- SMARTLOCK$817
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$479
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$421
- ALLODERM$249
- OviTex 2S$237
- CellerateRx$222
- ARTISS$220
- Motiva Implant Matrix$197
- Xperience$176
- BlastX$176
- SurgX$176
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$160
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$160
- ALLOGRAFT$150
How this compares
$9,167 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Pittsburgh
- Andy KiserPittsburgh$1M
- George EidPittsburgh$619K
- 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
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.