Gustavo Pradilla, MD
Neurological Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1659425916
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $111,675 of the $164,100 with a category attached, or 68.1%. Stryker accounts for 77.6% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $63,722 and has fallen 95.1% since, to $3,113 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in MD 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 170 payments — averaging $965.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$127K
- NICO Corporation$22K
- Aesculap, Inc.$11K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$1K
- Penumbra, Inc.$1K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$294
- plus $592 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$111,67568%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,0005%
- Travel & lodging$36,16522%
- Food & beverage$6,6444%
- Education$6170%
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 | 128 | $127,294 |
| NICO Corporation | 8 | $22,305 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 15 | $10,973 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 4 | $1,473 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 7 | $1,168 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $294 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $269 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $150 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $135 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $21 |
| Amryt Pharma Holdings Ltd | 1 | $17 |
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.
- CORE$53,544
- SONOPET IQ$50,857
- AESCULAP$10,559
- NSE - ESSX BLADES$9,450
- 1788$5,750
- N/A$2,275
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$2,101
- SCOPIS ENT$2,014
- STRYKER NAV3$1,950
- CUSTOM IMPLANTS$1,600
- SHAVER SYSTEM$1,500
- INTRABEAM$1,460
- NSE - SONOPET$1,400
- IORT$1,127
- NA$1,100
- NICO AUTOMATED PRESERVATION SYSTEM$1,090
- NICO BRAINPATH$1,090
- NICO MENIGLIDE$1,090
- NICO SECUREHOLD$1,090
- NICO FLUID SYSTEM$1,090
How this compares
$164,100 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 133 neurological surgery providers in Maryland.
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 Baltimore
- Alexander CoonBaltimore$2.7M
- Charles SansurBaltimore$1.8M
- Nicholas TheodoreBaltimore$833K
- Daniel SciubbaBaltimore$789K
- Henry BremBaltimore$353K
- Ira GaronzikBaltimore$297K
- James ConwayBaltimore$273K
- Timothy WithamBaltimore$141K
- Charles ParkBaltimore$89K
- William AndersonBaltimore$77K
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.