Michael Levitt, MD
Neurological Surgery · Seattle, WANPI 1497955595
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,499 of the $5,496 with a category attached, or 63.7%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Penumbra, Inc. at 43.4% of the total.
Across 30 payments — averaging $183.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Aidoc Medical Ltd$650
- Microvention, Inc.$354
- Balt USA, LLC$188
- Johnson & Johnson$131
- plus $171 from 4 others
Across 45 payments — averaging $5839.26 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$137K
- Stryker$72K
- Penumbra, Inc.$52K
- Viz.ai, Inc.$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,23022%
- Grants$74914%
- Travel & lodging$180%
- Food & beverage$3,49964%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 14 | $2,383 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $1,619 |
| Aidoc Medical Ltd | 1 | $650 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 3 | $354 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 1 | $188 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $131 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $24 |
| Route 92 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Stryker | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Penumbra System$1,363
- Pipeline$758
- ACTIVA$749
- Briefcase$650
- Artemis$563
- Optima Coil System$188
- BOBBY$148
- Benchmark$146
- WEB$107
- LVIS Jr.$107
- LVIS$107
- Headway Microcatheter$107
- Scepter XC Balloon Catheter$107
- Solitaire$103
How this compares
$5,496 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 175 neurological surgery providers in Washington.
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 Seattle
- Rod OskouianSeattle$2.4M
- Christoph HofstetterSeattle$768K
- Stephen MonteithSeattle$151K
- Jean-Christophe LevequeSeattle$120K
- Vijay YanamadalaSeattle$85K
- Hoan Vu TranSeattle$78K
- Martin RutkowskiSeattle$62K
- Bailey ZampellaSeattle$38K
- Melanie WalkerSeattle$38K
- Elias EliasSeattle$35K
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.