RxDoctor Payments Data

Jan Eckermann, MD

Neurological Surgery · Bakersfield, CANPI 1962619668

Payments from drug & device makers

$77,896in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 742 payments — averaging $104.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Nevro Corp.$41K
  • Medtronic$17K
  • Boston Scientific$15K
  • Abbott$3K
  • Globus Medical$897
  • Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$529
  • plus $459 from 5 others
$15,000in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $3000.00 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.

  • Nevro Corp.$15K

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$34,87553%
  • Travel & lodging$2,8544%
  • Food & beverage$28,46743%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Nevro Corp.206$41,400
Medtronic(2 entities)341$16,973
Boston Scientific104$14,852
Abbott58$2,786
Globus Medical(2 entities)21$897
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.5$529
Nalu Medical, Inc.3$182
Si-bone, Inc.1$143
Smith+Nephew1$47
Mimedx Group, Inc.1$47
Exelixis Inc.1$41

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

$77,896 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,670
Medicare patients
42
Services billed
60

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Cephalexin18$164
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen11$100
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim13$41

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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