Has Gerald Schell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $77,406 in general payments to Gerald Schell, MD across 81 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 Gerald Schell, 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 Gerald Schell, 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.

Gerald Schell, MD

Neurological Surgery · Saginaw, MINPI 1871584011

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $75,876 of the $77,406 with a category attached, or 98.0%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spinal Elements, Inc. at 54.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $34,388 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $35 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in MI 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.

$77,406in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 81 payments — averaging $955.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Spinal Elements, Inc.$42K
Amendia, Inc.$34K
Boston Scientific$895
Innovasis Inc$173
Quandary Medical LLC$147
Nevro Corp.$141
plus $174 from 4 others

$33,134in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $1380.59 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.

Spinal Elements, Inc.$33K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$75,87698%
Food & beverage$1,5302%

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
Spinal Elements, Inc.	26	$42,026
Amendia, Inc.	6	$33,849
Boston Scientific	36	$895
Innovasis Inc	2	$173
Quandary Medical LLC	3	$147
Nevro Corp.	2	$141
Johnson & Johnson	3	$85
Medtronic	1	$60
Abbott	1	$15
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$14

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.

ZEUSO$36,133
OLIF$16,503
savtlown$11,722
ZEUS$6,665
spartan$3,543
Savannah T$1,176
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$131

How this compares

$77,406 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 256 neurological surgery providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$249,998

Medicare patients

263

Services billed

1,268

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	378	$5,554
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	145	$2,863
Gabapentin	202	$2,442
Tizanidine Hcl	229	$1,659
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	56	$1,586
Dexamethasone	34	$595
Pregabalin	79	$564
Ibuprofen	64	$501
Celecoxib	35	$414
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	80	$323
Meloxicam	75	$252
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	14	$215
Baclofen	21	$200
Tramadol Hcl	30	$104

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Saginaw

Erich RichterSaginaw$28K
Frank LamarcaAnn Arbor$4.8M
Justin SingerGrand Rapids$944K
Jayant JagannathanTroy$685K
Timothy SpencerBattle Creek$543K
Daniel FahimRoyal Oak$525K
Daniel OrringerAnn Arbor$500K
Vittorio MorrealeShelby Twp$439K
Noojan KazemiAnn Arbor$406K
Azam BasheerDetroit$405K

See the full list for Michigan →

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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