Cara Sedney, MD
Neurological Surgery · Morgantown, WVNPI 1922205525
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $2,325 of the $3,857 with a category attached, or 60.3%. Synthes GmbH accounts for 87.6% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,565 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $18 in 2025.
Across 12 payments — averaging $321.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Synthes GmbH$3K
- Medtronic$449
- Johnson & Johnson$18
- Irras USA, Inc.$12
Across 23 payments — averaging $2323.92 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.
- AbbVie$53K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,32560%
- Travel & lodging$1,32034%
- Food & beverage$2125%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Synthes GmbH | 5 | $3,377 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $449 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Irras USA, 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.
How this compares
$3,857 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 45 neurological surgery providers in West Virginia.
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 Morgantown
- Christopher CifarelliMorgantown$55K
- Alexander BraleyMorgantown$17K
- Justin OhMorgantown$16K
- Peter KonradMorgantown$11K
- Robert MarshMorgantown$9K
- Ryan TurnerMorgantown$3K
- Louisa OnyewadumeMorgantown$2K
- Cesar Serrano-AlmeidaMorgantown$1K
- Jonathan PrattMorgantown$366
- Ronald HargravesMorgantown$50
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.