Peter Gerszten
Neurosurgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1891768883
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (57.1%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 63.9% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $18,679 and has fallen 92.8% since, to $1,352 in 2025.
Across 73 payments — averaging $520.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$24K
- Zimmer Biomet$10K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Stryker$893
- Cerapedics Inc.$441
- Zap Surgical Systems, Inc.$231
- plus $647 from 5 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $5064.43 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Cerapedics Inc.$46K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,62525%
- Speaking & faculty fees$21,70057%
- Travel & lodging$2,6557%
- Food & beverage$4,03711%
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(2 entities) | 28 | $24,286 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 19 | $10,445 |
| Globus Medical | 6 | $1,072 |
| Stryker | 10 | $893 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 4 | $441 |
| Zap Surgical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $231 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $182 |
| Amgen | 1 | $140 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $98 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $89 |
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.
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION SYSTEM$14,568
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION$4,385
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$3,500
- Optio-C$3,375
- TriCor$3,000
- Timberline$2,000
- Vital$2,000
- TrellOss$2,000
- ADAPTIVESTIM$820
- Excelsius - GPS$729
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$415
- Vitality$305
- TRITANIUM$291
- Zap-X$231
- aprevo$182
- COALITION AGX$149
- CREO$149
- MYSTIM$149
- EVENITY$140
- icotec Medical BlackArmor Spine Oncology System$138
How this compares
Too few neurosurgery providers in Pennsylvaniato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 86 | $486 |
| Methocarbamol | 76 | $380 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 18 | $118 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 14 | $19 |
| Diazepam | 12 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurosurgery in Pittsburgh
- Ajay NiranjanPittsburgh$4K
- Daniel WechtPittsburgh$877
- Lawrence LunsfordPittsburgh$472
- John MoossyPittsburgh$329
- Benjamin LeePittsburgh$0
- Nirav ShahLanghorne$14K
- Michael RutiglianoGreensburg$2K
- Joseph ScognaLanghorne$322
- Daniel O'RourkeFountain Hill$0
- Robert MarcincinBethlehem$0
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.