Kathleen Scholz
Family · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1821592643
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (59.4%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Gilead accounts for 67.7% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $131,405, 8.6 times the $15,352 reported in 2021. Among family 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 936 payments — averaging $423.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$268K
- AbbVie$127K
- Organogenesis Inc.$250
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$153
- Kerecis Limited$143
- Viiv Healthcare Company$122
- plus $210 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$33,6098%
- Speaking & faculty fees$235,60959%
- Travel & lodging$108,40127%
- Food & beverage$19,0125%
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 | 661 | $268,466 |
| AbbVie | 232 | $127,286 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 8 | $250 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 7 | $153 |
| Kerecis Limited | 9 | $143 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 6 | $122 |
| Biowound Solutions, Inc. | 7 | $91 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $56 |
| Halozyme Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
How this compares
$396,631 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,717 family providers in Pennsylvania.
Other family in Pittsburgh
- Kweilynn GreenePittsburgh$139K
- Margaret RosenzweigPittsburgh$89K
- Patricia HabdasPittsburgh$83K
- Morgan ColePittsburgh$41K
- Amber GrinnellPittsburgh$33K
- Matthew BarnesPittsburgh$25K
- Alexander TatangeloPittsburgh$20K
- Sydney MurrayPittsburgh$19K
- Renee ConnPittsburgh$15K
- Shannon FitzgeraldAllison Park$370K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.