Has Michael Nead, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,215 in general payments to Michael Nead, MD across 20 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 Michael Nead, 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 Michael Nead, 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.

Michael Nead, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Rochester, NYNPI 1144288572

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,215in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $560.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Covidien LP$5K
Intuitive Surgical$4K
AstraZeneca$2K
Johnson & Johnson$212
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$44
Merck$13

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,33436%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,95030%
Travel & lodging$1,53624%
Food & beverage$2013%
Education$4637%

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
Covidien LP	2	$4,732
Intuitive Surgical	13	$3,882
AstraZeneca	1	$2,334
Johnson & Johnson	2	$212
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas	1	$44
Merck	1	$13

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

$11,215 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,115 pulmonary disease providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$48,590

Medicare patients

153

Services billed

413

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
ThalomidThalidomide	13	$89,304
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter	98	$74,612
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr	38	$18,155
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate	15	$5,783
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	35	$991
Prednisone	27	$70

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pulmonary disease in Rochester

R WhiteRochester$3.1M
Daniel LachantRochester$1.6M
Robert KottmannRochester$913K
Steve GeorasRochester$269K
Michael LarjRochester$230K
Linda RogersNew York$7.1M
Maria PadillaNew York$3.6M
Juan WisniveskyNew York$3M
Bushra MinaNew York$2.5M
Robert KanerNew York$2.3M

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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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