Tiffany Hodges, MD
Neurological Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1972747640
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (52.4%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 90.5% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $24,240 and has fallen 95.9% since, to $992 in 2025.
Across 45 payments — averaging $938.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$38K
- Medexus Pharma, Inc.$3K
- GT Medical Technologies, Inc$307
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$207
- Globus Medical$136
- Telix Pharmaceuticals$112
- plus $226 from 3 others
Across 13 payments — averaging $86,915 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.
- Merck$1.1M
- Monteris Medical Corporation$30K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$22,15852%
- Speaking & faculty fees$17,38541%
- Travel & lodging$1,3743%
- Food & beverage$1,3293%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 26 | $38,226 |
| Medexus Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $3,031 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 5 | $307 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $207 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $136 |
| Telix Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $112 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 2 | $84 |
| Stryker | 1 | $51 |
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.
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$25,662
- StealthStation$8,555
- Gleolan$2,970
- STEALTH AUTOGUIDE SYSTEM$1,450
- ILLUCCIX$224
- GammaTile$130
- AttraX$111
How this compares
$42,246 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 301 neurological surgery providers in Ohio.
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 Cleveland
- Abdi MohitCleveland$884K
- Mark BainCleveland$242K
- Pablo RecinosCleveland$211K
- Michael SteinmetzCleveland$168K
- Josue Avecillas ChasinCleveland$144K
- Gene BarnettCleveland$135K
- Prakash KotagalCleveland$82K
- Ajit KrishnaneyCleveland$76K
- Gabriel SmithCleveland$72K
- Peter RasmussenCleveland$58K
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.