Michael Desciak, MD
Anesthesiology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1437653417
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 62 payments — averaging $85.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Abbott$2K
- Nevro Corp.$221
- Boston Scientific$141
- Curonix LLC$106
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$85
- plus $58 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,92155%
- Food & beverage$2,37245%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 28 | $2,693 |
| Abbott | 22 | $1,990 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $221 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $141 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $106 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $85 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $58 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$1,519
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$1,032
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$847
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$277
- ETERNA$172
- Senza$107
How this compares
$5,293 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,015 anesthesiology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine | 16 | $4,144 |
| Gabapentin | 72 | $632 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 30 | $338 |
| Methocarbamol | 21 | $237 |
| Pregabalin | 17 | $222 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $49 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 14 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other anesthesiology in Pittsburgh
- Kathirvel SubramaniamPittsburgh$530K
- William McIvorPittsburgh$226K
- Jonathan WatersPittsburgh$191K
- Daniela DamianPittsburgh$179K
- Christopher SmithPittsburgh$55K
- Alexandra NicholasPittsburgh$52K
- Patricia DalbyPittsburgh$52K
- Nicholas SchottPittsburgh$42K
- Sean McDermottPittsburgh$31K
- Ryan HoldenPittsburgh$30K
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.