John Cullen, MD
Surgery · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1700045564
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 69 payments — averaging $49.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$721
- Axonics, Inc.$364
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$202
- Boston Scientific$94
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$89
- plus $455 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,48043%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1504%
- Travel & lodging$35610%
- Food & beverage$1,46342%
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.
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$311
- Axonics$258
- GATTEX$150
How this compares
$3,449 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 988 surgery 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Sodium Chloride0.9 % Sodium Chloride | 37 | $1,366 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 74 | $421 |
| Ondansetron HclOndansetron Hcl/Pf | 34 | $329 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 38 | $257 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 42 | $236 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 13 | $180 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 32 | $156 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 15 | $98 |
| Metronidazole | 36 | $63 |
| Diazepam | 55 | $50 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 17 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Cincinnati
- Kevin TymitzCincinnati$69K
- Benjamin StiversCincinnati$66K
- Cory BarratCincinnati$46K
- Jonathan ThompsonWest Chester$2.2M
- Raymond OndersCleveland$1.2M
- Clayton PetroCleveland$1.1M
- Ali AminianCleveland$1.1M
- Michael RosenCleveland$983K
- Michael MearaColumbus$868K
- Neilendu KunduCleveland$808K
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.