Has Joseph Neimat, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $196,192 in general payments to Joseph Neimat, MD across 293 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 Joseph Neimat, 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 Joseph Neimat, 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.

Joseph Neimat, MD

Neurological Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1417984329

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $137,015 of the $196,192 with a category attached, or 69.8%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Monteris Medical Corporation at 35.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $59,170 and has fallen 60.3% since, to $23,511 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in KY 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.

$196,192in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 293 payments — averaging $669.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Monteris Medical Corporation$69K
Abbott$40K
Medtronic$28K
Accuray Incorporated$23K
Boston Scientific$21K
FHC, Inc.$10K
plus $6K from 13 others

$292,121in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 270 payments — averaging $1081.93 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.

Neuropace, Inc.$96K
Monteris Medical Corporation$76K
Abbott$62K
Medtronic$59K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$137,01570%
Speaking & faculty fees$20,01210%
Travel & lodging$27,31614%
Food & beverage$11,8496%

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
Monteris Medical Corporation	87	$68,856
Abbott	48	$39,532
Medtronic(2 entities)	44	$27,776
Accuray Incorporated	27	$22,562
Boston Scientific	37	$20,992
FHC, Inc.	2	$10,291
Globus Medical	12	$1,929
Neuropace, Inc.	10	$1,060
DIXI Medical USA Corp	2	$832
Brainlab, Inc.	5	$742
Synaptive Medical Inc.	2	$374
Stryker	5	$324
UCB, Inc.	2	$229
Livanova USA, Inc.	4	$225
Johnson & Johnson	1	$159
Novocure Inc.	1	$135
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$95
Zimmer Biomet	2	$56
SK Life Science, Inc.	1	$24

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.

How this compares

$196,192 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 99 neurological surgery providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$58,662

Medicare patients

Services billed

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.

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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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