Maria Li, MD
Neurological Surgery · Minot, NDNPI 1235203415
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $10,239 of the $13,146 with a category attached, or 77.9%. It is spread thinly across 12 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.2%. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $6,834 and has fallen 58.7% since, to $2,820 in 2025.
Across 87 payments — averaging $151.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Abbott$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Sioux Surgical Inc$1K
- Arthrex$1K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
- plus $1K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$10,23978%
- Food & beverage$2,90722%
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 | 26 | $3,056 |
| Abbott | 19 | $2,962 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $1,822 |
| Sioux Surgical Inc | 6 | $1,481 |
| Arthrex | 13 | $1,339 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $1,172 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $849 |
| Amgen | 2 | $199 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $112 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $83 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $17 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$2,756
- Intracept$2,344
- CONCORDE$1,625
- VIPER$1,625
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$967
- Timberline$606
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$232
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$145
- Mobi-C$134
- ViviGen$112
- EXPEDIUM$112
How this compares
$13,146 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 22 neurological surgery providers in North Dakota.
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 Minot
- Hani MaloneFargo$315K
- Steven BroadwayFargo$22K
- David ShaferGrand Forks$17K
- Behzad SabitFargo$8K
- Alexander DrofaFargo$4K
- Artur SzymczakBismarck$4K
- Alan van NormanBismarck$1K
- Pelagia KouloumberisFargo$972
- Tong YangFargo$955
- Julius SilvidiFargo$902
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.