Jason Gale Bakkala, CRNA

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Jefferson Hospital Hospital · Jefferson Hills, PA

Colleagues at Allegheny Clinic

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 2300 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Alexis Bousamra, MD Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician · Pittsburgh, PA
• Amy D Crawford-Faucher, MD Family Medicine Physician · Monroeville, PA
• Deanne Marie Della Toffalo, DO Family Medicine Physician · Pittsburgh, PA
• Katelyn Fitzgerald, PA-C Surgical Physician Assistant · Sewickley, PA
• Elias Y Hilal, MD Otolaryngology Physician · Pittsburgh, PA
• Adam Kapalko, PA-C Medical Physician Assistant · Pittsburgh, PA
• Saiara Mahmud, PA-C Surgical Physician Assistant · Jefferson Hills, PA
• Walter Edward McGregor, MD Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician · Pittsburgh, PA
• Rebecca Price, CRNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Mc Murray, PA
• John Gordon Rehder, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Pittsburgh, PA
• Danielle Leigh Smith, MD, PHD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Pittsburgh, PA
• Brittany Wood Critical Care Medicine Nurse Practitioner · Pittsburgh, PA

Other providers in Jefferson Hills

• Samantha Baldwin, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1275808966

  565 Coal Valley Rd, Jefferson Hills, PA 15025-3703 · (412) 469-5000

• Adam A Barone, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1033502778

  565 Coal Valley Rd, Jefferson Hills, PA 15025-3703 · (412) 469-5000

• Zackary Jay Barron, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1245101492

  565 Coal Valley Rd, Jefferson Hills, PA 15025-3703 · (412) 469-5000

• Ruth Bisko, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1871568220

  565 Coal Valley Rd, Jefferson Hills, PA 15025-3703 · (412) 469-5000