Pamala Kuchta
Family · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1992975361
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 28 payments — averaging $116.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$299
- Medtronic$207
- BD$179
- Johnson & Johnson$141
- Pulmonx Corporation$131
- plus $262 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,74754%
- Food & beverage$1,50846%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 14 | $2,037 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 3 | $299 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $207 |
| BD | 1 | $179 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $141 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $131 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $121 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,835
- Photofrin$224
- Surgiphor$179
- MATRIXRIB$141
- CHARTIS CATHETER$131
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$131
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$131
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$131
- TAGRISSO$121
- EEA$119
How this compares
$3,256 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,717 family 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 29 | $210 |
| Potassium Chloride | 12 | $165 |
| Omeprazole | 11 | $138 |
| Prenatal Vitamin Plus Low IronPnv,calcium 72/Iron/Folic Acid | 12 | $99 |
| Celecoxib | 43 | $87 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $81 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 70 | $68 |
| Gabapentin | 38 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Pittsburgh
- Kathleen ScholzPittsburgh$397K
- Kweilynn GreenePittsburgh$139K
- Jessica LindenbergerPittsburgh$131K
- Margaret RosenzweigPittsburgh$89K
- Patricia HabdasPittsburgh$83K
- Morgan ColePittsburgh$41K
- Amber GrinnellPittsburgh$33K
- Matthew BarnesPittsburgh$25K
- Alexander TatangeloPittsburgh$20K
- Sydney MurrayPittsburgh$19K
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.