Nathan Schneider, MD
Surgery · Iowa City, IANPI 1124114327
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (44.7%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 66.4% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,392 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $42 in 2024.
Across 48 payments — averaging $116.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- BD$257
- Conmed Corporation$205
- Johnson & Johnson$66
- Stryker$54
- plus $130 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,66330%
- Food & beverage$1,43426%
- Education$2,50045%
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 | 20 | $3,715 |
| Davol Inc. | 7 | $1,171 |
| BD | 5 | $257 |
| Conmed Corporation | 4 | $205 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $66 |
| Stryker | 1 | $54 |
| Merck | 2 | $27 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $21 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $14 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- Phasix Mesh$1,274
- Da Vinci Surgical System$692
How this compares
$5,597 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 331 surgery providers in Iowa.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 60 | $3,992 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 64 | $283 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Iowa City
- Rory CarrollIowa City$22K
- Vikas DudejaIowa City$20K
- Samuel JonesIowa City$20K
- Jessica SmithIowa City$18K
- Paul PiersonIowa City$17K
- Joseph CullenIowa City$13K
- Isaac SamuelIowa City$13K
- Ryan LehmannIowa City$12K
- Peter NauIowa City$10K
- Sara HerreraIowa City$9K
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.