Robert Short
Diagnostic Radiology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1750593836
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $618,676 of the $668,679 with a category attached, or 92.5%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 66.8% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among diagnostic radiology 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 375 payments — averaging $1783.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$447K
- Johnson & Johnson$155K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$56K
- Mediview XR, Inc.$4K
- Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc$4K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- plus $1K from 6 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $9500.00 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.
- Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc$10K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$618,67693%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7000%
- Travel & lodging$40,6906%
- Food & beverage$8,6131%
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. | 259 | $446,638 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 76 | $155,082 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 6 | $56,122 |
| Mediview XR, Inc. | 3 | $4,315 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 7 | $4,022 |
| Boston Scientific | 11 | $1,246 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 3 | $831 |
| Advanced Critical Devices, Inc. | 2 | $175 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 3 | $86 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $46 |
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.
- Certus 140$321,985
- CERTUS 140 MICROWAVE ABLATION SYSTEM$181,592
- Neuwave$4,259
- ALIYA SYSTEM$3,915
- NEUWAVE Flex Microwave Ablation System$1,755
- DERMABOND Portfolio$1,400
- NeuFlex$675
- ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY Curved Intraluminal Stapler$120
How this compares
$668,679 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,665 diagnostic radiology providers in Pennsylvania.
Other diagnostic radiology in Pittsburgh
- Terri GizienskiPittsburgh$151K
- Emanuel KanalPittsburgh$76K
- Alessandro FurlanPittsburgh$45K
- Margarita ZuleyPittsburgh$21K
- Malolan RajagopalanPittsburgh$20K
- Mohammad RahmanPittsburgh$16K
- James BackstromPittsburgh$15K
- Amy LuPittsburgh$13K
- Rajan AgarwalAbington$2.1M
- William CorseDoylestown$1.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.