John Steele, MD
Neurological Surgery · Rochester Hills, MINPI 1639248040
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 48 payments — averaging $67.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Microvention, Inc.$325
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$164
- Aesculap, Inc.$94
- Johnson & Johnson$68
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$58
- plus $331 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,62450%
- Food & beverage$1,57349%
- Education$201%
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) | 17 | $2,177 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 3 | $325 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 8 | $164 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 2 | $94 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $68 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $33 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $22 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- RIST$1,348
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$313
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$175
- LVIS$164
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$160
- O-ARM$131
How this compares
$3,217 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 256 neurological surgery providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 65 | $504 |
| Pregabalin | 15 | $453 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 30 | $275 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 11 | $114 |
| Methocarbamol | 19 | $105 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $62 |
| Meloxicam | 20 | $21 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Rochester Hills
- Frank LamarcaAnn Arbor$4.9M
- Justin SingerGrand Rapids$1.5M
- John KellerGrand Rapids$1.1M
- Jayant JagannathanTroy$685K
- Daniel FahimRoyal Oak$609K
- Timothy SpencerBattle Creek$543K
- Daniel OrringerAnn Arbor$500K
- Noojan KazemiAnn Arbor$450K
- Vittorio MorrealeShelby Twp$439K
- Azam BasheerDetroit$432K
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.