Tunc Aksehirli, MD
Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1548559743
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.2%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 42.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,687 and has fallen 88.1% since, to $319 in 2025.
Across 74 payments — averaging $91.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$942
- Johnson & Johnson$856
- Novo Nordisk$179
- Covidien LP$145
- plus $274 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,41021%
- Travel & lodging$1,80827%
- Food & beverage$3,53352%
- Gifts$140%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 38 | $2,859 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $1,510 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 11 | $942 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $856 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $179 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $145 |
| GT Metabolic Solutions Inc | 1 | $93 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 4 | $81 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $44 |
| Amgen | 1 | $28 |
| Stryker | 1 | $28 |
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
$6,765 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 16 | $1,274 |
| Sucralfate | 21 | $1,182 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 65 | $344 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 20 | $189 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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.