Has Aditya Vedantam, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,782 in general payments to Aditya Vedantam, MD across 30 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Aditya Vedantam, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Aditya Vedantam, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Aditya Vedantam, MD

Neurological Surgery · Milwaukee, WINPI 1851730261

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,272 of the $2,782 with a category attached, or 81.6%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 45.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,689 and has fallen 82.9% since, to $288 in 2025.

$2,782in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $92.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$1K
Globus Medical$682
Medtronic$197
Si-bone, Inc.$194
Johnson & Johnson$176
Ossdsign USA Incorporated$145
plus $114 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$41215%
Food & beverage$2,27282%
Education$994%

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
Stryker	12	$1,276
Globus Medical(2 entities)	7	$682
Medtronic	3	$197
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$194
Johnson & Johnson	3	$176
Ossdsign USA Incorporated	1	$145
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$99
Lifeward, Inc.	1	$15

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

$2,782 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 133 neurological surgery providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$117,012

Medicare patients

Services billed

308

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.

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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.

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