Nitin Tandon, MD
Neurological Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1952341315
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Medtronic accounts for 78.0% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,406, 6.2 times the $547 reported in 2019.
Across 36 payments — averaging $151.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Neuropace, Inc.$278
- Neuroone Medical Technologies Corporation$190
- Abbott$160
- Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.$129
- Hyperfine Operations, Inc.$107
- plus $339 from 6 others
Across 374 payments — averaging $1659.26 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$504K
- Neuropace, Inc.$116K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,85052%
- Food & beverage$2,61648%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 21 | $4,263 |
| Neuropace, Inc. | 3 | $278 |
| Neuroone Medical Technologies Corporation | 1 | $190 |
| Abbott | 1 | $160 |
| Greenwich Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Hyperfine Operations, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $94 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd | 1 | $10 |
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.
- PERCEPT PC BRAINSENSE$3,134
- VISUALASE$413
- MIDAS REX$256
- RNS System$239
- INFINITY$160
- Epidiolex$129
- Swoop$107
How this compares
$5,466 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 29 | $276 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Houston
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Paul HolmanHouston$516K
- Taylor GistHouston$447K
- Meng HuangHouston$324K
- Laurence RhinesHouston$322K
- Omar TanweerHouston$254K
- Jeremy WangHouston$231K
- Alexander RopperHouston$208K
- Fangyi ZhangHouston$192K
- Ashwin ViswanathanHouston$185K
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.