Has John Kelleher, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $225,126 in general payments to John Kelleher, MD across 466 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Kelleher, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Kelleher, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Kelleher, MD

Neurological Surgery · Hershey, PANPI 1609082072

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (38.1%), royalties or licence payments and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 64.1% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological surgery clinicians in PA 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.

$225,126in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 466 payments — averaging $483.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$144K
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC$66K
Baxter Healthcare$7K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$2K
Cerapedics Inc.$880
plus $2K from 11 others

$4,105in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $4105.00 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.

Vertex$4K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$65,78829%
Consulting fees$36,39816%
Speaking & faculty fees$85,84538%
Travel & lodging$17,0228%
Food & beverage$17,1858%
Education$2,8881%

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)	412	$144,301
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC	6	$65,884
Baxter Healthcare	5	$6,863
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	3	$3,192
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education	2	$2,025
Cerapedics Inc.	4	$880
Spineology Inc.	2	$651
Globus Medical	15	$422
Icotec Medical Inc.	7	$299
Captiva Spine Inc	2	$222
Johnson & Johnson	2	$172
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$74
Zimmer Biomet	1	$44
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$41
Boston Scientific	1	$23
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	1	$21
Abbott	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.

CD HORIZON$47,892
CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$39,735
MAZOR X SYSTEM$10,178
CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$9,402
ELEVATE$8,518
FLOSEAL$6,833
PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$4,095
STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$4,025
MOUNTAINEER$3,150
BENGAL$3,150
Mazor X Stealth Edition$1,547
O-ARM-ST$1,382
UNID_PASS$1,278
MazorX - Renaissance$1,078
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$750
OptiMesh Interbody Fusion System$500
INFINITY OCT System$374
ADAPTIX INTERBODY SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$174
ZEVO$162
ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$156

How this compares

$225,126 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 390 neurological surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$184,655

Medicare patients

341

Services billed

660

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
Gabapentin	16	$205
Meloxicam	13	$7

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Hershey

Kevin CockroftHershey$86K
Brad ZachariaHershey$73K
Scott SimonHershey$68K
Nicholas BrandmeirHershey$47K
George ReiterHershey$42K
James McInerneyHershey$41K
Amer SamdaniPhiladelphia$4.4M
Steven FalowskiFountain Hill$3M
Adam KanterPittsburgh$2.6M
David OkonkwoPittsburgh$2.3M

See the full list for Pennsylvania →

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.

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