Bradley Gross, MD
Neurological Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1518130384
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (59.0%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 89.0% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $54,724 and has fallen 94.8% since, to $2,872 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in PA 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.
Across 264 payments — averaging $510.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$120K
- Microvention, Inc.$8K
- Balt USA, LLC$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$588
- plus $1K from 8 others
Across 26 payments — averaging $34,082 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.
- Medtronic$768K
- Route 92 Medical, Inc.$70K
- Stryker$46K
- Viz.ai, Inc.$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$31,64623%
- Speaking & faculty fees$79,45059%
- Travel & lodging$10,4918%
- Food & beverage$13,07410%
- Education$200%
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) | 147 | $119,871 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 34 | $7,895 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 30 | $2,763 |
| Stryker | 20 | $1,104 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 6 | $1,042 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $588 |
| Route 92 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $493 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 7 | $485 |
| Scientia Vascular | 1 | $142 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $88 |
| Abbott | 2 | $45 |
| Contego Medical, Inc | 1 | $26 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Pipeline$39,983
- RIST$20,735
- Rist-5F$15,262
- Navien$10,730
- SOLITAIRE X$7,358
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$5,500
- Echelon$2,320
- Optima Coil System$1,799
- WEB$968
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$939
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$939
- HydroSoft 3D Coil$755
- Solitaire$719
- Axium$580
- 8F Base Camp Sheath System$493
- 088 Access System$493
- Sofia$485
- HydroFrame Coil$401
- ONYX 18$362
- TracStarLargeDistalPlatform$227
How this compares
$134,681 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 13 | $7,025 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 30 | $427 |
| Prednisone | 11 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Pittsburgh
- Adam KanterPittsburgh$2.6M
- David OkonkwoPittsburgh$2.3M
- Constantinos HadjipanayisPittsburgh$484K
- Jody LeonardoPittsburgh$116K
- Dorian KusykPittsburgh$77K
- David HamiltonPittsburgh$66K
- Jorge Gonzalez-MartinezPittsburgh$65K
- Alejandro CastellviPittsburgh$61K
- Ivo PetoePittsburgh$56K
- Matthew ShepardPittsburgh$41K
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.