Robert Schilken, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1962403204
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC accounts for 60.4% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,220 and has fallen 71.2% since, to $352 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $3,243.
Across 49 payments — averaging $65.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$2K
- EBI, LLC$176
- Highridge Medical LLC$171
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$161
- Bioventus LLC$156
- Zimvie Inc.$125
- plus $489 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,36842%
- Education$1,86358%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 7 | $1,953 |
| EBI, LLC | 2 | $176 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 2 | $171 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $161 |
| Bioventus LLC | 7 | $156 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $115 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $112 |
| Vertex | 2 | $65 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $49 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 5 | $32 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Amgen | 2 | $27 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $17 |
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
$3,231 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 52 | $542 |
| Celecoxib | 15 | $143 |
| Meloxicam | 30 | $55 |
| Prednisone | 12 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Pittsburgh
- Edward WestrickPittsburgh$938K
- Timothy SauberPittsburgh$373K
- Eric YakishPittsburgh$278K
- Gary SchmidtPittsburgh$256K
- Ivan TarkinPittsburgh$243K
- Anthony DigioiaPittsburgh$217K
- Kenneth UrishPittsburgh$207K
- William HozackBensalem$10.6M
- Jess LonnerBryn Mawr$7.8M
- Gerald WilliamsBryn Mawr$6.8M
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.