Brian Snyder, MD
Neurological Surgery · Madison, WINPI 1689081895
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.0%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Si-bone, Inc. at 28.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,097 and has fallen 79.2% since, to $645 in 2025.
Across 104 payments — averaging $84.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Si-bone, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$623
- Nevro Corp.$406
- plus $842 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,40939%
- Food & beverage$4,28349%
- Education$1,04712%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Si-bone, Inc. | 27 | $2,460 |
| Medtronic | 16 | $1,845 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $1,479 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $1,083 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $623 |
| Nevro Corp. | 8 | $406 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $133 |
| Stryker | 3 | $122 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $111 |
| Novocure Inc. | 4 | $95 |
| CSL Behring | 4 | $85 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Merck | 1 | $25 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $24 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $23 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$1,148
- Excelsius - GPS$958
- CD HORIZON$955
- Senza$234
- NAVLOCK$144
- Neuro Plating System$133
- MAGNIFUSE BONE GRAFT$129
- FLOSEAL$111
- Teligen$109
How this compares
$8,739 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 133 neurological surgery providers in Wisconsin.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 24 | $170 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Madison
- Azam AhmedMadison$35K
- Mustafa BaskayaMadison$23K
- Christopher BaggottMadison$20K
- Daniel BurkettMadison$19K
- Sanjay BhatiaMadison$9K
- William KempMadison$8K
- Gregory TrostMadison$5K
- Michael KoltzMadison$5K
- Laura McGuireMadison$4K
- David NiemannMadison$4K
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.