Jonathan Russin, MD
Neurological Surgery · Burlington, VTNPI 1255562054
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $3,000 of the $4,972 with a category attached, or 60.3%. Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. accounts for 62.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,988 and has fallen 72.5% since, to $547 in 2025.
Across 25 payments — averaging $198.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$3K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$823
- Medtronic$321
- Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$216
- Acumed LLC$182
- Imperative Care, Inc$118
- plus $217 from 5 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $6812.71 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.
- Pramand LLC$41K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$34K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,00060%
- Food & beverage$1,97240%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 3 | $3,095 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 8 | $823 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $321 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $216 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $182 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $118 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Stryker | 1 | $40 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $28 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- OPMI Pentero$1,500
- KINEVO$1,500
- VNS Therapy$268
- VNS - Sentiva$168
- AXIUM PRIMETM$164
- VNS THERAPY SENTIVA MODEL 1000 GENERATOR$135
- ZOOM REPERFUSION CATHETER$118
How this compares
Too few neurological surgery providers in Vermontto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 neurological surgery in Burlington
- Luke SilveiraBurlington$3K
- Bruce TranmerBurlington$770
- Katrina DucisBurlington$246
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.