Michael Sather, MD
Neurological Surgery · Hershey, PANPI 1235358144
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 57 payments — averaging $194.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spineology Inc.$5K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Neuropace, Inc.$216
- Nevro Corp.$139
- plus $401 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,00063%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,75616%
- Travel & lodging$2012%
- Food & beverage$2,14919%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spineology Inc. | 4 | $5,151 |
| Boston Scientific | 16 | $2,431 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $1,756 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 19 | $1,012 |
| Neuropace, Inc. | 3 | $216 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $139 |
| Microtransponder, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Getset Surgical Inc | 1 | $69 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $64 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Abbott | 2 | $41 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $38 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $21 |
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.
- OptiMesh Graft Containment$4,500
- VNS - Vitaria$1,756
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$1,250
- Rampart Duo Ti Interbody Fusion System$500
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION$201
- INTELLIS$156
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$151
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$148
- RNS Neurostimulator Kit$131
- INFINION$112
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$105
How this compares
$11,107 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 390 neurological surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cefdinir | 48 | $289 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 31 | $194 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 25 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Hershey
- George ReiterHershey$297K
- James McInerneyHershey$279K
- John KelleherHershey$229K
- Kevin CockroftHershey$127K
- Dawit AregawiHershey$86K
- Scott SimonHershey$80K
- Amer SamdaniPhiladelphia$4.7M
- Steven FalowskiFountain Hill$3.3M
- Adam KanterPittsburgh$2.6M
- David OkonkwoPittsburgh$2.5M
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.