Amiel Bethel, MD
Neurological Surgery · Scranton, PANPI 1295751337
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,248 of the $1,552 with a category attached, or 80.4%. It is spread thinly across 28 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for neurological surgery clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $3,234.
Across 48 payments — averaging $32.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$337
- Abbott$256
- Cerapedics Inc.$99
- UCB, Inc.$90
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$83
- CSL Behring$71
- plus $617 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$191%
- Travel & lodging$18612%
- Food & beverage$1,24880%
- Education$996%
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(2 entities) | 6 | $337 |
| Abbott | 4 | $256 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| UCB, Inc. | 5 | $90 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $83 |
| CSL Behring | 4 | $71 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $43 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Biogen | 1 | $23 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$1,552 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 390 neurological 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.
Other neurological surgery in Scranton
- Amer SamdaniPhiladelphia$4.4M
- Steven FalowskiFountain Hill$3M
- Adam KanterPittsburgh$2.6M
- David OkonkwoPittsburgh$2.3M
- Brian JankowitzPhiladelphia$823K
- Gaurav JainWynnewood$599K
- Joshua HellerPhiladelphia$519K
- Srinivas PrasadPhiladelphia$513K
- Constantinos HadjipanayisPittsburgh$484K
- Oded GorenDanville$448K
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.