Ari Brooks, MD
Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1669419206
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,527 of the $10,657 with a category attached, or 61.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 78.7% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,020 and has fallen 73.9% since, to $1,049 in 2025.
Across 49 payments — averaging $217.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$2K
- Axogen$203
- Medtronic$25
- Stryker$25
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$14
Across 15 payments — averaging $4298.85 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.
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.$64K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,00019%
- Travel & lodging$6,52761%
- Food & beverage$6306%
- Education$1,50014%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 43 | $8,390 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $2,000 |
| Axogen | 2 | $203 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $25 |
| Stryker | 1 | $25 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$10,657 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,424 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.
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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.