Has Priya Krishna, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $20,147 in general payments to Priya Krishna, MD across 32 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Priya Krishna, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Priya Krishna, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Priya Krishna, MD

Otolaryngology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1730153172

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $15,250 of the $20,147 with a category attached, or 75.7%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 92.8% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $10,056 and has fallen 83.0% since, to $1,712 in 2025. Among otolaryngology 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.

$20,147in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $629.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$19K
Stryker$329
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$325
Verathon Inc.$300
Medtronic$170
Olympus America Inc.$149
plus $186 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$15,25076%
Travel & lodging$3,58218%
Food & beverage$1,2676%
Education$470%

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
Smith+Nephew	23	$18,688
Stryker	3	$329
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	1	$325
Verathon Inc.	1	$300
Medtronic	1	$170
Olympus America Inc.	1	$149
Covidien LP	1	$139
Precigen, Inc.	1	$47

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.

How this compares

$20,147 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 456 otolaryngology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$174,842

Medicare patients

247

Services billed

3,044

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
Famotidine	140	$7,246
Esomeprazole Magnesium	35	$4,176
Ipratropium Bromide	51	$1,522
Pilocarpine Hcl	18	$1,492
Omeprazole	80	$1,332
Pantoprazole Sodium	63	$1,133
Azelastine Hcl	23	$833
Rabeprazole Sodium	17	$456
Lansoprazole	18	$454
Fluticasone Propionate	19	$211

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Pittsburgh

Stella LeePittsburgh$438K
Matthew SpectorPittsburgh$56K
Umamaheswar DuvvuriPittsburgh$48K
Jose ZevallosPittsburgh$40K
Thomas KaffenbergerPittsburgh$33K
Eric WangPittsburgh$15K
Suman GollaPittsburgh$13K
Giuseppe StaltariPittsburgh$8K
Warren SwegalPittsburgh$7K
Carl SnydermanPittsburgh$6K

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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.

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