Brett Wakefield, MD
Anesthesiology · Cleveland, OHNPI 1932528254
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $14,150 of the $17,794 with a category attached, or 79.5%. Abiomed accounts for 96.6% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $13,198 and has fallen 88.8% since, to $1,477 in 2025. Among anesthesiology 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 44 payments — averaging $404.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$17K
- Medtronic$512
- Teleflex LLC$30
- Michigan Critical Care Consultants, Inc.$25
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$24
- Atricure, Inc.$22
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$14,15080%
- Travel & lodging$2,02411%
- Food & beverage$1,6209%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 26 | $17,182 |
| Medtronic | 13 | $512 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Michigan Critical Care Consultants, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- Impella$15,490
- MC3 NAUTILUS(TM) ECMO OXYGENATOR$256
How this compares
$17,794 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,623 anesthesiology 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.
Other anesthesiology in Cleveland
- Sabry AyadCleveland$427K
- Edwin AveryCleveland$194K
- Hesham ElsharkawyCleveland$189K
- Basem AbdelmalakCleveland$147K
- Daniel SesslerCleveland$140K
- Andrew ShawCleveland$112K
- Michael SmithCleveland$75K
- Adi CosicCleveland$57K
- Sameam ShahrestaniCleveland$57K
- Peter SchoenwaldCleveland$55K
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.