Omar Choudhri, MD
Neurological Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1225294432
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.0%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Microvention, Inc. at 29.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $154,546, more than ten times the $1,619 reported in 2019. Among neurological surgery clinicians in PA 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 304 payments — averaging $1001.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Microvention, Inc.$90K
- Balt USA, LLC$51K
- Stryker$45K
- Medtronic$44K
- Qapel Medical Inc$40K
- Rapid Medical Ltd$10K
- plus $24K from 16 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $2444.73 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.
- Microvention, Inc.$12K
- Nuvascular Inc.$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$149,28249%
- Speaking & faculty fees$95,16531%
- Travel & lodging$44,55815%
- Food & beverage$15,3825%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Microvention, Inc. | 101 | $89,665 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 40 | $51,434 |
| Stryker | 29 | $44,534 |
| Medtronic | 31 | $44,079 |
| Qapel Medical Inc | 7 | $39,904 |
| Rapid Medical Ltd | 4 | $10,307 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 39 | $9,388 |
| Boston Scientific | 11 | $6,657 |
| Scientia Vascular | 5 | $3,989 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 14 | $1,746 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 1 | $900 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 11 | $488 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 2 | $389 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $222 |
| Route 92 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $164 |
| Asahi Intecc CO., LTD. | 1 | $152 |
| Mizuho America, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 1 | $86 |
| Inspiremd Ltd | 1 | $35 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 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.
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$64,513
- SURPASS EVOLVE$39,881
- RIST$39,244
- Optima Coil System$33,061
- STENT$21,969
- FLOWGATE$17,000
- NEUROFORM ATLAS$17,000
- AXS VECTA 71$17,000
- TARGET$17,000
- TIGERTRIEVER 17 REVASCULARIZATION DEVICE$10,307
- COMANECI 17$10,307
- PHIL$7,530
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$4,954
- Pipeline$4,467
- LVIS JUNIOR$2,750
- EVOLVE$2,571
- CorPath Imaging System$2,104
- CAROTID WALLSTENT$1,563
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,454
- WEB$1,361
How this compares
$304,387 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Other neurological surgery in Philadelphia
- Amer SamdaniPhiladelphia$4.4M
- Brian JankowitzPhiladelphia$823K
- Joshua HellerPhiladelphia$519K
- Srinivas PrasadPhiladelphia$513K
- Chengyuan WuPhiladelphia$377K
- John ShinPhiladelphia$306K
- Pascal JabbourPhiladelphia$198K
- Casey HalpernPhiladelphia$186K
- Steven FulopPhiladelphia$140K
- Kyle MuellerPhiladelphia$138K
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.