Daniel Eiferman, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Columbus, OHNPI 1407012008
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.1%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.8% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $56,014, more than ten times the $173 reported in 2019. Among surgical critical care clinicians in OH 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 102 payments — averaging $587.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$60K
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$119
- Solventum Corporation$15
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$33,60056%
- Travel & lodging$5,6119%
- Food & beverage$3,8736%
- Education$16,80028%
- Gifts$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 100 | $59,758 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$59,028
- CATALYS SYSTEM$119
- Tecnis Simplicity$119
- Tecnis IOL$119
How this compares
$59,892 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 79 surgical critical care providers in Ohio.
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 surgical critical care in Columbus
- Jennifer Knight DavisColumbus$66K
- Nicole BernalColumbus$27K
- Erich WesselColumbus$9K
- Brian WeissColumbus$9K
- Carrie ValdezColumbus$8K
- Yizhi ShanColumbus$7K
- Kwang SuhColumbus$6K
- Michal RadomskiColumbus$6K
- Paul BeeryColumbus$5K
- John BachColumbus$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.