James McInerney, MD
Neurological Surgery · Hershey, PANPI 1528010048
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (49.2%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 90.7% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $14,121 and has fallen 90.3% since, to $1,372 in 2025.
Across 624 payments — averaging $65.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$37K
- Elekta K.k.$2K
- Insightec,inc$906
- Zap Surgical Systems, Inc.$710
- Elekta, Inc.$275
- Nevro Corp.$145
- plus $290 from 3 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $47,652 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.
- Elekta Instrument AB$212K
- Surgical Information Sciences, Inc.$26K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,18215%
- Speaking & faculty fees$20,20049%
- Travel & lodging$3,97610%
- Food & beverage$10,73126%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 605 | $37,263 |
| Elekta K.k. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Insightec,inc | 6 | $906 |
| Zap Surgical Systems, Inc. | 3 | $710 |
| Elekta, Inc. | 3 | $275 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $145 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $123 |
| Abbott | 2 | $113 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
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.
- PERCEPT PC BRAINSENSE$16,179
- Percept$5,220
- ACTIVA$3,399
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$2,500
- Exablate$717
- ZAP-X MV IMAGER$500
- ZAP-X TREATMENT PLANNING SOFTWARE$500
- ZAP-X TREATMENT DELIVERY SOFTWARE$500
- ZAP-X RADIOSURGERY SYSTEM$500
- SenSight$232
- LEKSELL GAMMA KNIFE ICON$162
- LEKSELL GAMMA KNIFE PERFEXION$162
- LEKSELL GAMMAPLAN$162
- Leksell Stereotactic System$162
- LEKSELL VANTAGE STEREOTACTIC SYSTEM$162
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$145
- Zap-X$125
- VERCISE$123
- MazorX - Renaissance$114
How this compares
$41,089 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 390 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 32 | $458 |
| Cephalexin | 29 | $387 |
| Carbamazepine | 11 | $247 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $109 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Hershey
- John KelleherHershey$225K
- Kevin CockroftHershey$86K
- Brad ZachariaHershey$73K
- Scott SimonHershey$68K
- Nicholas BrandmeirHershey$47K
- George ReiterHershey$42K
- Amer SamdaniPhiladelphia$4.4M
- Steven FalowskiFountain Hill$3M
- Adam KanterPittsburgh$2.6M
- David OkonkwoPittsburgh$2.3M
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.