Sonia Geschwindt, MD
Neurological Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1255503991
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,646 of the $3,805 with a category attached, or 69.5%. Abbott accounts for 87.1% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,716 and has fallen 82.2% since, to $306 in 2025.
Across 104 payments — averaging $36.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Medtronic$210
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$127
- Innovation Technologies Inc$94
- AstraZeneca$48
- Acorda Therapeutics, Inc$12
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$120%
- Travel & lodging$1,13330%
- Food & beverage$2,64670%
- Education$150%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 96 | $3,315 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $210 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $94 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $48 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$1,298
- ETERNA$292
- Cervical-STIM$127
- ELEVATE$108
How this compares
$3,805 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 106 | $1,048 |
| Pregabalin | 24 | $320 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 22 | $71 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Philadelphia
- Amer SamdaniPhiladelphia$4.4M
- Brian JankowitzPhiladelphia$823K
- Joshua HellerPhiladelphia$519K
- Srinivas PrasadPhiladelphia$513K
- Chengyuan WuPhiladelphia$377K
- John ShinPhiladelphia$306K
- Omar ChoudhriPhiladelphia$304K
- Pascal JabbourPhiladelphia$198K
- Casey HalpernPhiladelphia$186K
- Steven FulopPhiladelphia$140K
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.