Bruce Cohen, MD
Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology · Akron, OHNPI 1386610434
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $13,145 of the $14,853 with a category attached, or 88.5%. UCB, Inc. accounts for 64.8% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $9,632 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $75 in 2025.
Across 21 payments — averaging $707.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- UCB, Inc.$10K
- UCB SA$3K
- PTC Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$134
- Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$125
- Neurelis, Inc.$57
- plus $18 from 1 others
Across 214 payments — averaging $6036.26 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.
- PTC Therapeutics, Inc.$1.1M
- Astellas Pharma Inc$217K
- UCB Biosciences Inc.$15K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$13,14589%
- Travel & lodging$9667%
- Food & beverage$7425%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| UCB, Inc. | 11 | $9,625 |
| UCB SA | 1 | $3,025 |
| PTC Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $1,869 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $125 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
How this compares
$14,853 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 113 neurology with special qualifications in child neurology providers in Ohio.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Levocarnitine | 14 | $1,376 |
| Topiramate | 22 | $798 |
| Baclofen | 11 | $707 |
| Divalproex Sodium | 13 | $299 |
| Diazepam | 14 | $86 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurology with special qualifications in child neurology in Akron
- Matthew GinsbergAkron$8K
- Michael KohrmanAkron$6K
- Thiruvengadam KulasekaranAkron$4K
- Ian RossmanAkron$4K
- Sariha MoyenAkron$2K
- Lucyna ZawadzkiAkron$2K
- Nancy PhilipAkron$682
- Margaret McBrideAkron$350
- Hope O'BrienCincinnati$525K
- Ajay GuptaCleveland$261K
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.