Has Leonardo Brito de Almeida, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $80,121 in general payments to Leonardo Brito de Almeida, MD across 134 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 Leonardo Brito de Almeida, 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 Leonardo Brito de Almeida, 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.

Leonardo Brito de Almeida, MD

Neurology · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1013224427

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (59.3%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 66.4% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurology clinicians in MN 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.

$80,121in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 134 payments — averaging $597.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$53K
Boston Scientific$27K
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$85

$251,288in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $6282.21 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.

Medtronic$207K
Abbott$45K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$8,32510%
Speaking & faculty fees$47,52059%
Travel & lodging$20,29825%
Food & beverage$3,8935%
Education$850%

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)	114	$53,215
Boston Scientific	19	$26,821
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$85

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

$80,121 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 434 neurology providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$42,013

Medicare patients

101

Services billed

513

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
IngrezzaValbenazine Tosylate	11	$88,419
RytaryCarbidopa/Levodopa	49	$62,252
Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa	226	$14,463
Carbidopa	14	$3,563
Carbidopa-Levodopa ErCarbidopa/Levodopa	45	$2,836
Ropinirole ErRopinirole Hcl	18	$1,595
Gabapentin	35	$1,072
Primidone	31	$691
Propranolol Hcl	26	$639
Ropinirole Hcl	14	$493
AmantadineAmantadine Hcl	17	$424
Pregabalin	17	$189
Mirtazapine	11	$157
Topiramate	13	$153
Donepezil Hcl	11	$141

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurology in Minneapolis

Jeffery AllenMinneapolis$1.1M
Jerrold VitekMinneapolis$97K
Kamaskshi LakshminarayanMinneapolis$64K
Sanjay SinghMinneapolis$42K
Elizabeth NeilMinneapolis$26K
Allyson ConnorMinneapolis$23K
Kelsey JensenMinneapolis$22K
Javier Suarez OliverosMinneapolis$22K
Ilo LeppikMinneapolis$18K
Kristine DomingoMinneapolis$17K

See the full list for Minnesota →

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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