Philippe Mercier
Neurological Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1053710160
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (42.1%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. GT Medical Technologies, Inc accounts for 64.7% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $11,389 and has fallen 95.1% since, to $562 in 2025.
Across 96 payments — averaging $187.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GT Medical Technologies, Inc$12K
- Medtronic$2K
- Neuropace, Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$616
- Globus Medical$587
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$335
- plus $613 from 4 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $12,483 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.
- Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.$71K
- Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Development America, Inc.$20K
- Vertex$8K
- Innovative Surgical Designs, Inc.$216
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,25035%
- Travel & lodging$7,58742%
- Food & beverage$3,86421%
- Entertainment$3202%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 16 | $11,657 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 52 | $2,349 |
| Neuropace, Inc. | 4 | $1,864 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $616 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $587 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 2 | $335 |
| Corelink, LLC | 6 | $280 |
| Abbott | 4 | $221 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $14 |
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.
- GammaTile$11,405
- RNS Neurostimulator Kit$1,864
- Excelsius - GPS$578
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$466
- ROSA$393
- VISUALASE$328
- UNID_PASS$132
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$118
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$108
How this compares
$18,021 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 172 neurological surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $181 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Saint Louis
- Neill WrightSaint Louis$1.1M
- Wilson RaySaint Louis$586K
- Camilo MolinaSaint Louis$412K
- Paul SantiagoSaint Louis$368K
- Daniel ScodarySaint Louis$278K
- Daniel HafezSaint Louis$273K
- John OgunladeSaint Louis$220K
- Joshua OsbunSaint Louis$98K
- Adewale BakareSaint Louis$81K
- Eric LeuthardtSaint Louis$78K
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.