Jeffrey Ustin, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Cleveland, OHNPI 1558552679
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $44,800 of the $46,455 with a category attached, or 96.4%. Lazurite Inc. accounts for 96.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $38,542 and has fallen 96.2% since, to $1,472 in 2024. Among surgical critical care clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 17 payments — averaging $2732.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lazurite Inc.$45K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$155
- Polynovo North America LLC$142
- TELA Bio, Inc.$119
- AbbVie$29
- plus $41 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$44,80096%
- Travel & lodging$1,0662%
- Food & beverage$5891%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lazurite Inc. | 2 | $44,800 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $1,170 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $155 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $142 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $29 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $27 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
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.
- AdvantageRib$959
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$155
- OviTex 2S$119
How this compares
$46,455 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 79 surgical critical care providers in Ohio.
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 surgical critical care in Cleveland
- Laura KreinerCleveland$9K
- Peter ZmijewskiCleveland$7K
- Daniel MurphyCleveland$2K
- Alaina LasinskiCleveland$2K
- Kristen Conrad-SchnetzCleveland$1K
- Jeffrey ClaridgeCleveland$1K
- Douglas NaylorCleveland$814
- Justin DvorakCleveland$554
- James FlippinCleveland$495
- John ComoCleveland$458
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.