Michael Meara, MD
Surgery · Columbus, OHNPI 1194929844
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $515,700 of the $808,064 with a category attached, or 63.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.1% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in OH 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.
Across 1,006 payments — averaging $803.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$785K
- Davol Inc.$13K
- Medtronic$6K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$135
- plus $278 from 4 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $29,958 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.
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.$60K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,5051%
- Speaking & faculty fees$171,18521%
- Grants$1,0000%
- Travel & lodging$86,57411%
- Food & beverage$27,0503%
- Education$515,70064%
- Gifts$510%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 945 | $784,815 |
| Davol Inc. | 21 | $13,112 |
| Medtronic | 26 | $5,824 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $2,326 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $1,575 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $135 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| BD | 2 | $102 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $41 |
| Stryker | 1 | $23 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$691,598
- DA VINCI SP$83,700
- PHASIX$4,250
- ProGrip$3,070
- GENERAL - BILIARY DEVICES$1,000
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$886
- LigaSure$228
- PARIETENE DS$172
- AXIOS$142
- SpyGlass Discover$141
- Phasix Mesh$135
- N/A$135
- SPYGLASS$133
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$130
- V-LOC 180$127
- BD MAX$118
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$112
How this compares
$808,064 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 988 surgery providers in Ohio.
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 surgery in Columbus
- Marshall SpaldingColumbus$450K
- Michelle KincaidColumbus$262K
- Thomas SonnanstineColumbus$144K
- Mark GazallColumbus$52K
- Bradley NeedlemanColumbus$49K
- William DevoeColumbus$36K
- Thomas RobertsonColumbus$32K
- Nirav RanaColumbus$32K
- Jonathan ThompsonWest Chester$2.1M
- Raymond OndersCleveland$1.2M
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.