Melanie Costa, MD
Dermatology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1801976733
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 266 payments — averaging $11.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Novartis$465
- Dermavant Sciences, Inc.$393
- Johnson & Johnson$220
- Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals$200
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$184
- plus $418 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,87096%
- Education$1084%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 131 | $1,096 |
| Novartis | 37 | $465 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 20 | $393 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 32 | $220 |
| Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals | 10 | $200 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 17 | $184 |
| Sanofi | 5 | $129 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 4 | $128 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $45 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Amgen | 1 | $31 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $19 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Encore Dermatology Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $5 |
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.
- VTAMA$129
How this compares
$2,978 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 626 dermatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab | 11 | $79,703 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 193 | $6,436 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 113 | $4,093 |
| Betamethasone Diprop AugmentedBetamethasone/Propylene Glyc | 305 | $3,830 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 111 | $3,276 |
| Ketoconazole | 118 | $2,693 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 256 | $1,885 |
| Tretinoin | 21 | $1,653 |
| Metronidazole | 30 | $1,444 |
| Spironolactone | 37 | $1,107 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 43 | $1,053 |
| Mometasone Furoate | 56 | $957 |
| Doxepin Hcl | 12 | $492 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 13 | $415 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base In Ethanol | 13 | $313 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Pittsburgh
- Laura FerrisPittsburgh$4.3M
- Joe TungPittsburgh$1.5M
- Oleg AkilovPittsburgh$1.3M
- Neil NirenPittsburgh$574K
- Timothy PattonPittsburgh$276K
- Charles MountPittsburgh$189K
- Daniel KaplanPittsburgh$165K
- Hassane ZarourPittsburgh$131K
- Victoria WerthPhiladelphia$7.2M
- Joel GelfandPhiladelphia$3.6M
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.