Bradley Needleman, MD
Surgery · Columbus, OHNPI 1063451284
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (36.9%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 30.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $17,500, more than ten times the $438 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 109 payments — averaging $452.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Boston Scientific$12K
- Medtronic$11K
- Covidien LP$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$2K
- plus $4K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$14,15829%
- Speaking & faculty fees$18,20037%
- Travel & lodging$6,96214%
- Food & beverage$4,94110%
- Education$5,03510%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 38 | $14,961 |
| Boston Scientific | 13 | $12,396 |
| Medtronic | 27 | $11,448 |
| Covidien LP | 5 | $3,012 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $2,043 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $1,800 |
| Endolumik, Inc. | 2 | $1,575 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $1,124 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $350 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 3 | $174 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $173 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $171 |
| Stryker | 1 | $82 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$14,058
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$10,552
- Signia$10,356
- Sonicision$2,800
- GENERAL ENDOCHOICE$1,841
- Endolumik Gastric Calibration Tube$1,500
- LigaSure$266
- VALLEYLAB FT10$185
- BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$144
- Phasix Mesh$135
- N/A$135
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$112
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$109
How this compares
$49,308 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 988 surgery providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lactated RingersRinger's Solution,lactated | 21 | $2,195 |
| Sucralfate | 24 | $1,454 |
| Omeprazole | 12 | $80 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Columbus
- Michael MearaColumbus$808K
- Marshall SpaldingColumbus$450K
- Michelle KincaidColumbus$262K
- Thomas SonnanstineColumbus$144K
- Mark GazallColumbus$52K
- William DevoeColumbus$36K
- Thomas RobertsonColumbus$32K
- Nirav RanaColumbus$32K
- Jonathan ThompsonWest Chester$2.1M
- Raymond OndersCleveland$1.2M
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.