Brian Snelling, MD
Neurological Surgery · Boca Raton, FLNPI 1730478447
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $6,474,803 of the $10,018,562 with a category attached, or 64.6%. Medtronic accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,481,600 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $7,486 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in FL 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 173 payments — averaging $57,911 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$10M
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$7K
- Stryker$763
- Baxter Healthcare$266
- Microvention, Inc.$175
- Kaneka Medical America LLC$152
- plus $736 from 17 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $1360.43 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.
- Stryker$5K
- Medtronic$4K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,481,34935%
- Consulting fees$6,6460%
- Speaking & faculty fees$38,2330%
- Travel & lodging$13,4030%
- Food & beverage$4,1080%
- Education$200%
- Other$6,474,80365%
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) | 117 | $10,009,860 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $6,646 |
| Stryker | 14 | $763 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $266 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 2 | $175 |
| Kaneka Medical America LLC | 1 | $152 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 1 | $139 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 6 | $91 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $76 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $67 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $59 |
| CSL Behring | 3 | $49 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $47 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $35 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $33 |
| Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd | 1 | $26 |
| Greenwich Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Viz.ai, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- RIST$5,383,762
- Rist-5F$4,615,176
- Pipeline$8,676
- Cerenovus Enterprise$3,323
- Pulsar Vascular PulseRider Aneurysm Neck Reconstruction Device$3,323
- SURPASS EVOLVE$313
- TREVO$299
- LINQ II$299
- UNID_PASS$298
- Apheresis Machine$152
- TARGET$150
- NEUROFORM ATLAS$150
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$140
- Neuroblate$139
- AXS VECTA 71$137
- TISSEEL$118
How this compares
$10,018,599 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.
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 Boca Raton
- Timothy OconnorBoca Raton$156K
- Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Kim ManwaringOrlando$5M
- Paul SawinWinter Park$3M
- John MainOcala$2.8M
- Michael WangMiami$2.2M
- Andrew CannestraJacksonville$1.6M
- Rohit VasanTampa$1.5M
- Wilson AsforaMiami$1.3M
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.