Theodore Yuo, MD
Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1588829196
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $10,442 of the $14,457 with a category attached, or 72.2%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. at 56.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $9,003 and has fallen 92.9% since, to $636 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 62 payments — averaging $233.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$8K
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$3K
- Medtronic$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Penumbra, Inc.$339
- Inari Medical, Inc.$153
- plus $356 from 8 others
Across 24 payments — averaging $3045.54 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.
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$73K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,44272%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3502%
- Travel & lodging$1,0357%
- Food & beverage$2,63018%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 10 | $8,144 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 9 | $2,766 |
| Medtronic | 21 | $1,497 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 6 | $1,203 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $339 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $72 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $61 |
| Laminate Medical Technologies Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Amgen | 2 | $51 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $27 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $27 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- HeRO Graft$1,401
- Savi SCOUT$1,200
- TurboHawk$736
- Product in Development$500
- WRAPSODY Endovascular Stent Graft System$350
- Indigo System$339
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$185
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$173
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$160
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$153
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$153
- Pristine$107
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$101
How this compares
$14,457 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 71 | $52,982 |
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 11 | $2,022 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 48 | $565 |
| Cilostazol | 14 | $238 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 49 | $90 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 14 | $33 |
| Prednisone | 24 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $61 | $52,98271 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
Other surgery in Pittsburgh
- Andy KiserPittsburgh$1M
- George EidPittsburgh$619K
- Ariel AballayPittsburgh$198K
- Blair JobePittsburgh$150K
- Philip SchauerPittsburgh$94K
- Abhinav HumarPittsburgh$57K
- Eric HagerPittsburgh$41K
- Matthew NealPittsburgh$34K
- Derek Serna-GallegosPittsburgh$32K
- Kellie CunninghamPittsburgh$28K
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.