Leonard Gehl
Cardiovascular Disease · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1245299718
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 87 payments — averaging $17.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$297
- Boston Scientific$220
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$180
- Pfizer$116
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$98
- Biotronik Inc.$92
- plus $511 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,38692%
- Education$1288%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 18 | $297 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $220 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 10 | $180 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $116 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $98 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 3 | $92 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 3 | $73 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $70 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $66 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $63 |
| Amgen | 4 | $63 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $33 |
| Corindus Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Gilead | 2 | $31 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $24 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $14 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,514 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th 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.