RxDoctor Payments Data

Omar Zalatimo, MD

Neurological Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1053519256

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Providence Medical Technology, Inc. accounts for 65.0% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $24,817 and has fallen 72.4% since, to $6,847 in 2025.

$39,850in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 151 payments — averaging $263.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$26K
  • Novocure Inc.$5K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Boston Scientific$1K
  • Abbott$995
  • Globus Medical$817
  • plus $4K from 23 others
$70,767in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $5897.24 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.

  • Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$71K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$23,77560%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$4,00010%
  • Travel & lodging$5,30613%
  • Food & beverage$6,76817%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$39,850 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 133 neurological surgery providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$356,179
Medicare patients
363
Services billed
969

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Tizanidine Hcl89$741
Gabapentin31$421
Methylprednisolone24$189
Oxycodone Hcl20$119
Tramadol Hcl16$69

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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