Joseph Zabramski
Neurological Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1578550125
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $374,660 of the $380,937 with a category attached, or 98.4%. GT Medical Technologies, Inc accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $160,950 and has fallen 71.6% since, to $45,702 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 110 payments — averaging $3463.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GT Medical Technologies, Inc$381K
- Mizuho America, Inc.$111
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$95
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$374,66098%
- Travel & lodging$4,6661%
- Food & beverage$1,6110%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 108 | $380,732 |
| Mizuho America, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
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.
- GammaTile$370,944
- Medical Device$9,225
How this compares
$380,937 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 173 neurological surgery providers in Arizona.
Other neurological surgery in Phoenix
- Robert SpetzlerPhoenix$12.8M
- Juan UribePhoenix$6.7M
- Stephen PapadopoulosPhoenix$6M
- Volker SonntagPhoenix$2M
- Jay TurnerPhoenix$1.2M
- Michael LawtonPhoenix$761K
- Bryan LeePhoenix$441K
- Randall PorterPhoenix$410K
- Francisco PoncePhoenix$292K
- Curtis DickmanPhoenix$260K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.