Has Gale Hazen, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,828 in general payments to Gale Hazen, MD across 16 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Gale Hazen, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Gale Hazen, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Gale Hazen, MD

Neurological Surgery · Sheffield Village, OHNPI 1265480370

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,828in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $114.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Philips North America LLC$1K
AbbVie$248
Stryker$126
Globus Medical$98
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$59
Medtronic$57
plus $40 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1,20066%
Food & beverage$62834%

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
Philips North America LLC	1	$1,200
AbbVie	2	$248
Stryker	4	$126
Globus Medical(2 entities)	4	$98
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$59
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$57
Baxter Healthcare	1	$20
Boston Scientific	1	$20

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

$1,828 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 301 neurological surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$90,747

Medicare patients

152

Services billed

358

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	43	$359
Gabapentin	28	$336
Naproxen	26	$251
Ibuprofen	13	$214
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	14	$137
Tramadol Hcl	18	$77
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	12	$60

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Sheffield Village

Tiffany HodgesCleveland$1.2M
Mark BainCleveland$1M
Ali RezaiColumbus$1M
Abdi MohitCleveland$884K
Andrew SloanDayton$850K
Andrew GrossbachColumbus$814K
William ZerickWesterville$778K
Patrick YoussefColumbus$729K
Stephanus ViljoenColumbus$717K
Sudhakar VadiveluCincinnati$660K

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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.

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