Melissa Rau
Family Medicine · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1972866143
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 144 payments — averaging $23.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$656
- Dexcom, Inc.$549
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$491
- Novo Nordisk$444
- Lilly USA, LLC$398
- Pfizer$211
- plus $574 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,13194%
- Education$1926%
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 | 25 | $656 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 18 | $549 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 20 | $491 |
| Novo Nordisk | 26 | $444 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 17 | $398 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $211 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 10 | $198 |
| Abbott | 5 | $106 |
| Cequr Corporation | 2 | $43 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $35 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $33 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Invivyd Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| Cosette Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $17 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $13 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- DEXCOM G7 GSS (161)$159
- DEXCOM G6 TRANSMITTER$127
- ZEPBOUND$120
- QULIPTA$116
- UBRELVY$116
How this compares
$3,323 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,967 family medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Other family medicine in Pittsburgh
- Bryce PalchickPittsburgh$4.7M
- Shari RozenPittsburgh$2.9M
- Nathan BennettPittsburgh$1.6M
- James MorettiPittsburgh$1.5M
- Michael GatesPittsburgh$608K
- Daniel AustinPittsburgh$598K
- Norman KolbPittsburgh$81K
- Kem YenalPhila$12.6M
- Marcy FleckerSmithfield$6.9M
- Tiffany PlutoScottdale$4.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.