Howard Ross, MD
Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1982634978
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (53.9%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Applied Medical Resources Corporation accounts for 71.1% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,208 and has fallen 84.1% since, to $670 in 2025.
Across 35 payments — averaging $159.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Applied Medical Resources Corporation$4K
- Medtronic$407
- Johnson & Johnson$310
- Intuitive Surgical$304
- Biom'up SA$196
- Stryker$135
- plus $256 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4759%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,00054%
- Travel & lodging$4428%
- Food & beverage$1,65430%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 5 | $3,961 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $407 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $310 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $304 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $196 |
| Stryker | 1 | $135 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $60 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Mesh Suture 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.
- Gelport Laparoscopic System$3,442
- GelPOINT V-Path$375
- Echelon Flex$284
- Da Vinci Surgical System$229
- HEMOBLAST$196
- DERMABOND PRINEO$169
- Echelon Circular$169
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$135
- Signia$126
- CONTOUR$114
- STRATAFIX$114
How this compares
$5,571 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Metronidazole | 13 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Daniel HashimotoPhiladelphia$73K
- Scott KozinPhiladelphia$59K
- Prashanth PalvannanPhiladelphia$54K
- Henry HirschPhiladelphia$53K
- Erica PettkePhiladelphia$52K
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.