Has Ajit Krishnaney, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $75,849 in general payments to Ajit Krishnaney, MD across 160 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 Ajit Krishnaney, 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 Ajit Krishnaney, 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.

Ajit Krishnaney, MD

Neurological Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1346281052

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $52,083 of the $75,849 with a category attached, or 68.7%. Stryker accounts for 89.6% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $26,484 and has fallen 87.3% since, to $3,359 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in OH 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.

$75,849in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 160 payments — averaging $474.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$68K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
Icotec Medical Inc.$3K
Philips North America LLC$1K
Si-bone, Inc.$493
Johnson & Johnson$290
plus $627 from 6 others

$103,073in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $8589.39 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.

Pfizer$103K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$52,08369%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,2002%
Travel & lodging$14,85920%
Food & beverage$7,70810%

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	118	$67,967
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$2,699
Icotec Medical Inc.	19	$2,572
Philips North America LLC	1	$1,200
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$493
Johnson & Johnson	4	$290
Globus Medical(2 entities)	4	$215
Carbofix Spine Inc	3	$123
MML US, Inc.	1	$103
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$78
Bioventus LLC	2	$55
VB Spine LLC	2	$54

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.

EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$33,816
CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$28,236
TRITANIUM$23,546
SERRATO$13,664
ES2$12,246
VLIFT$10,913
XIA$9,147
OASYS$2,636
VIPER$2,633
AERO$1,855
CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$1,705
AVS PL$1,500
icotec BlackArmor Spine System$1,421
(9547) IGT Systems Undivided$1,200
VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM 6.0, SCREW, Carbon/PEEK, POLYAX., FEN., O 5.5 X 45 MM$914
VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM, ROD, Carbon/PEEK, CURVED, 6.0 R450 X 200 MM$914
KONG-TL VBR E, EXPANDABLE BODY, L, 19 MM X 27 - 37 MM$914
KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, ROUND, L AND SCREW, 12 X 43 MM$914
KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, RECTANGULAR, M AND SCREW, 12 X 33 MM$914
ALEUTIAN TLIF MI$727

How this compares

$75,849 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 301 neurological surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$204,404

Medicare patients

125

Services billed

407

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.

Other neurological surgery in Cleveland

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Mark BainCleveland$242K
Pablo RecinosCleveland$211K
Michael SteinmetzCleveland$168K
Josue Avecillas ChasinCleveland$144K
Gene BarnettCleveland$135K
Prakash KotagalCleveland$82K
Gabriel SmithCleveland$72K
Peter RasmussenCleveland$58K
Tiffany HodgesCleveland$42K

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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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