Mark Blatter
Pediatrics · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1548269939
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $187,626 of the $238,055 with a category attached, or 78.8%. Pfizer accounts for 60.1% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $107,160 and has fallen 98.1% since, to $2,040 in 2025. Among pediatrics 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 366 payments — averaging $650.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$143K
- Merck$78K
- Seqirus USA Inc$13K
- VBI Vaccine (delaware) Inc.$4K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$300
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,0402%
- Speaking & faculty fees$187,62679%
- Travel & lodging$39,55117%
- Food & beverage$5,8382%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 241 | $142,986 |
| Merck | 110 | $78,070 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 10 | $12,659 |
| VBI Vaccine (delaware) Inc. | 1 | $4,040 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 4 | $300 |
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.
- TRUMENBA$130,631
- VAXNEUVANCE$58,699
- GARDASIL 9$10,050
- PREVNAR - 13$5,700
- PreHevbrio$4,040
- GARDASIL$3,730
- FLUCELVAX QUADRIVALENT (MULTI-DOSE VIAL)$3,300
- ENFLONSIA$2,040
- PNEUMOVAX 23$1,350
- PREVNAR 20$1,225
How this compares
$238,055 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,849 pediatrics providers in Pennsylvania.
Other pediatrics in Pittsburgh
- Todd WolynnPittsburgh$275K
- Hoda Abdel HamidPittsburgh$101K
- Anne-Marie RickPittsburgh$16K
- Tyler HarrisPittsburgh$9K
- Uta Lichter-KoneckiPittsburgh$6K
- Sarah SpringerPittsburgh$5K
- Steven TwanPittsburgh$4K
- H BreckPittsburgh$4K
- Jennifer PreissPittsburgh$4K
- Craig CollisonSpring Mills$670K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.