David Brandman, MD
Neurological Surgery · Sacramento, CANPI 1952932766
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $40,000 of the $46,240 with a category attached, or 86.5%. Boston Scientific accounts for 86.5% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $40,000 and has fallen 90.8% since, to $3,690 in 2025.
Across 14 payments — averaging $3302.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$40K
- Globus Medical$6K
- Abbott$173
- Nevro Corp.$147
- Stryker$28
Across 8 payments — averaging $5299.27 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.
- Abbott$42K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,5008%
- Grants$40,00087%
- Travel & lodging$2,3935%
- Food & beverage$3481%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $40,000 |
| Globus Medical | 9 | $5,893 |
| Abbott | 1 | $173 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $147 |
| Stryker | 1 | $28 |
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.
- VERCISE$40,000
- Excelsius - GPS$3,657
- Excelsius Cranial 1.0$2,231
- Infinity DBS Pulse Generators$173
- Senza$147
How this compares
$46,240 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.
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 Sacramento
- Kee KimSacramento$682K
- Ben WaldauSacramento$207K
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Larry KhooLos Angeles$2.8M
- Samy AbdouSan Diego$2.4M
- Bret AbshireMurrieta$2.3M
- William TaylorSan Diego$2.1M
- Tooraj GravoriEncino$2M
- Ali MesiwalaRancho Cucamonga$1.5M
- Joseph OsorioSan Diego$1.3M
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.