Neurosurgery in Pennsylvania
11 providers, $59,233 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays neurosurgery clinicians in Pennsylvania
Across 11 neurosurgery clinicians in Pennsylvania who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $855,029 in total — an average of $77,730 each, of which $77,730 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Peter GersztenPittsburgh$38,017
- 2Nirav ShahLanghorne$13,948
- 3Ajay NiranjanPittsburgh$3,504
- 4Michael RutiglianoGreensburg$1,764
- 5Daniel WechtPittsburgh$877
- 6Lawrence LunsfordPittsburgh$472
- 7John MoossyPittsburgh$329
- 8Joseph ScognaLanghorne$322
- 9Benjamin LeePittsburgh$0
- 10Daniel O'RourkeFountain Hill$0
- 11Robert MarcincinBethlehem$0