Philip Schauer, MD
Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1952494262
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $71,122 of the $93,952 with a category attached, or 75.7%. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 35.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $36,021 and has fallen 87.6% since, to $4,482 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 209 payments — averaging $449.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$33K
- Johnson & Johnson$14K
- Novo Nordisk$13K
- Regeneron$13K
- Eli Lilly$7K
- Medtronic$5K
- plus $9K from 17 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $68,500 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.
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$69K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$71,12276%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,2509%
- Travel & lodging$4,1584%
- Food & beverage$10,39011%
- Education$320%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 26 | $32,998 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 50 | $14,289 |
| Novo Nordisk | 31 | $12,893 |
| Regeneron | 15 | $12,606 |
| Eli Lilly | 4 | $6,775 |
| Medtronic | 36 | $5,065 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $4,522 |
| Covidien LP | 14 | $2,284 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $716 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 8 | $376 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $268 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $265 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $233 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $217 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $122 |
| Stryker | 1 | $99 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $83 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 2 | $37 |
| Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Echelon Flex$38,201
- Harmonic$38,117
- Zynrelef$4,522
- N/A$4,410
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$3,787
- HARMONIC Product Family$3,659
- Signia$2,698
- Da Vinci Surgical System$600
- INTEGRA$446
- LINX Reflux Management System$368
- LigaSure$248
- Wegovy$236
- Enseal$228
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$224
- OMNIGRAFT$149
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$149
- Spacemaker$123
- EVICEL Fibrin Sealant (Human)$123
- ZEPBOUND$122
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$117
How this compares
$93,952 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,424 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ursodiol | 49 | $2,313 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 23 | $216 |
| Omeprazole | 16 | $51 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $44 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Pittsburgh
- Andy KiserPittsburgh$1M
- George EidPittsburgh$619K
- Ariel AballayPittsburgh$198K
- Blair JobePittsburgh$150K
- Abhinav HumarPittsburgh$57K
- Eric HagerPittsburgh$41K
- Matthew NealPittsburgh$34K
- Derek Serna-GallegosPittsburgh$32K
- Kellie CunninghamPittsburgh$28K
- Schae SaravitzPittsburgh$27K
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.