Susan Gearhart, MD
Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1245277029
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,616 of the $3,616 with a category attached, or 72.3%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 34.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,671 and has fallen 93.2% since, to $113 in 2025.
Across 26 payments — averaging $139.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Davol Inc.$714
- Stryker$513
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$256
- Johnson & Johnson$183
- THD America, Inc.$145
- plus $570 from 6 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $344.75 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.
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$1K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,61672%
- Education$1,00028%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $1,236 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $714 |
| Stryker | 3 | $513 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $256 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $183 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $133 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $127 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $95 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $71 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $38 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,000
- Phasix Mesh$418
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$339
- 1788$173
- PHASIX$147
- Enseal X1$144
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$143
- STRATTICE$133
- INTERSTIM$127
- GORE SYNECOR Preperitoneal Biomaterial$113
How this compares
$3,616 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 493 surgery providers in Maryland.
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 surgery in Baltimore
- Dorry SegevBaltimore$1.2M
- Thomas SwopeBaltimore$775K
- Alisa CokerBaltimore$702K
- John LedonneBaltimore$329K
- Martin MakaryBaltimore$135K
- Murtaza DawoodBaltimore$82K
- Christopher YouBaltimore$79K
- Daniel LubelskiBaltimore$67K
- Stephen YangBaltimore$45K
- Amelia PasleyBaltimore$32K
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.