Brian Sydow, MD
Diagnostic Radiology · Atlanta, GANPI 1124178405
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $5,064 of the $6,523 with a category attached, or 77.6%. Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. accounts for 88.5% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,543 and has fallen 96.9% since, to $169 in 2025. Among diagnostic radiology clinicians in GA 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 32 payments — averaging $203.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$6K
- Heartflow, Inc.$518
- GE HealthCare$163
- Cleerly, Inc.$37
- Boston Scientific$35
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3565%
- Travel & lodging$5,06478%
- Food & beverage$1,10317%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 22 | $5,770 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 3 | $518 |
| GE HealthCare | 4 | $163 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $35 |
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.
- SOMATOM Drive$4,157
- MAGNETOM Sola$1,100
- SOMATOM Force$967
- FFRct$491
- SOMATOM GO$133
How this compares
$6,523 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 840 diagnostic radiology providers in Georgia.
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 diagnostic radiology in Atlanta
- Patricia BalthazarAtlanta$144K
- Felix GonzalezAtlanta$128K
- Diego MartinAtlanta$68K
- Susan MulliganAtlanta$16K
- Christine MurphyAtlanta$16K
- Sophia PetermanAtlanta$12K
- Courtney MorenoAtlanta$11K
- Frank MihlonAtlanta$10K
- Amit SaindaneAtlanta$5K
- Johnson LiouAtlanta$5K
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.