Justin Sweeney, MD
Neurological Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1689871998
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,530 of the $5,582 with a category attached, or 63.2%. Medtronic accounts for 64.6% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 78 payments — averaging $71.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- GT Medical Technologies, Inc$447
- Bioventus LLC$358
- Johnson & Johnson$323
- Globus Medical$280
- Stryker$92
- plus $476 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,12220%
- Food & beverage$3,53063%
- Education$93017%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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) | 36 | $3,606 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 7 | $447 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $358 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $323 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 3 | $280 |
| Stryker | 4 | $92 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $76 |
| Abbott | 3 | $69 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $26 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 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.
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$910
- VISUALASE$801
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$427
- GammaTile$301
- UNID_PASS$262
- nanoLOCK-L$169
- XLIF$154
- BoneScalpel$150
- UNiD$140
- MATRIXNEURO$135
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$127
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$124
- FORTIFY$100
- CREO MIS Stabilization System$100
- Sable$100
How this compares
$5,582 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 172 neurological surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 48 | $390 |
| Pregabalin | 11 | $204 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 44 | $194 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Saint Louis
- Neill WrightSaint Louis$1.1M
- Wilson RaySaint Louis$586K
- Camilo MolinaSaint Louis$412K
- Paul SantiagoSaint Louis$368K
- Daniel ScodarySaint Louis$278K
- Daniel HafezSaint Louis$273K
- John OgunladeSaint Louis$220K
- Joshua OsbunSaint Louis$98K
- Adewale BakareSaint Louis$81K
- Eric LeuthardtSaint Louis$78K
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.