Ehud Mendel, MD
Neurological Surgery · New Haven, CTNPI 1275561342
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $96,982 of the $119,907 with a category attached, or 80.9%. Stryker accounts for 68.0% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological surgery clinicians in CT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 57 payments — averaging $2103.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$81K
- VB Spine LLC$16K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$12K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$5K
- Varian Medical Systems, Inc.$4K
- Medtronic$404
- plus $1K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$96,98281%
- Consulting fees$14,72812%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,0003%
- Travel & lodging$3,1893%
- Food & beverage$2,0082%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 15 | $81,499 |
| VB Spine LLC | 3 | $15,604 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 14 | $12,104 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $4,680 |
| Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | 4 | $4,366 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $404 |
| Carbofix Spine Inc | 2 | $389 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $328 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $204 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $125 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $95 |
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.
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$77,116
- CAPRI$19,866
- CONDUIT$10,319
- ViviGen$10,319
- SYMPHONY$10,319
- FIBERGRAFT$889
- Edge$792
- CONFIDENCE$785
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$155
- EXPEDIUM$134
- O-ARM$130
- CREO$125
- SYNFIX$124
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$122
- EXPAREL$120
- Iovera$120
- Zilretta$120
- Vader Pedicle System$109
How this compares
$119,907 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 94 neurological surgery providers in Connecticut.
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 New Haven
- Murat GunelNew Haven$839K
- Pedro de Oliveira CoutinhoNew Haven$129K
- Charles MatoukNew Haven$114K
- Ryan HebertNew Haven$82K
- Mihir GuptaNew Haven$78K
- Khalid AbbedNew Haven$58K
- Jacky YeungNew Haven$50K
- Veronica ChiangNew Haven$40K
- Luis KolbNew Haven$24K
- Dennis SpencerNew Haven$16K
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.