Mark Kubik
Otolaryngology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1881937340
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (52.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cook Incorporated at 52.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,634 and has fallen 93.8% since, to $162 in 2025.
Across 22 payments — averaging $186.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Incorporated$2K
- Stryker$800
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$466
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$162
- Johnson & Johnson$143
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$137
- plus $244 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,15052%
- Travel & lodging$86621%
- Food & beverage$1,08726%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $2,150 |
| Stryker | 3 | $800 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $466 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $162 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $143 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $137 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $108 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $91 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $44 |
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.
- Cook-Swartz$2,150
- XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$527
- SCOPIS ENT$221
- Restrata Wound Matrix$162
- MATRIXMANDIBLE$143
- MATRIXMIDFACE$143
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$137
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$137
- PRIMATRIX$137
- IDRT$137
- FLOWABLE$137
- TRUMATCH$119
How this compares
$4,102 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 456 otolaryngology providers in Pennsylvania.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth | 41 | $5,384 |
| Ipratropium Bromide | 96 | $2,741 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 293 | $2,364 |
| Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil | 40 | $1,563 |
| Ofloxacin | 78 | $1,383 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 36 | $711 |
| Acetic Acid | 31 | $635 |
| Methylprednisolone | 76 | $608 |
| Omeprazole | 64 | $486 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 59 | $432 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 49 | $432 |
| Pentoxifylline | 17 | $380 |
| Mometasone Furoate | 25 | $303 |
| Cefdinir | 15 | $172 |
| Mupirocin | 14 | $105 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other otolaryngology in Pittsburgh
- Stella LeePittsburgh$438K
- Matthew SpectorPittsburgh$56K
- Umamaheswar DuvvuriPittsburgh$48K
- Jose ZevallosPittsburgh$40K
- Thomas KaffenbergerPittsburgh$33K
- Priya KrishnaPittsburgh$20K
- Eric WangPittsburgh$15K
- Suman GollaPittsburgh$13K
- Giuseppe StaltariPittsburgh$8K
- Warren SwegalPittsburgh$7K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.