William Diefenbach
Neurological Surgery · Erie, PANPI 1740268812
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 115 payments — averaging $30.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Nevro Corp.$553
- Medtronic$180
- Globus Medical$122
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$96
- plus $410 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$33810%
- Food & beverage$3,19390%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 45 | $1,100 |
| Abbott | 19 | $1,069 |
| Nevro Corp. | 12 | $553 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $180 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 7 | $122 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $96 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $32 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$338
- ETERNA$172
- PROCLAIM$147
- INTELLIS$136
- Proclaim IPG$132
- PENTA$131
- Intracept$127
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$126
- EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$115
How this compares
$3,531 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 390 neurological surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
Other neurological surgery in Erie
- Salem El-ZuwayErie$81K
- Amer SamdaniPhiladelphia$4.7M
- Steven FalowskiFountain Hill$3.3M
- Adam KanterPittsburgh$2.6M
- David OkonkwoPittsburgh$2.5M
- Casey HalpernPhiladelphia$1.2M
- Clemens SchirmerDanville$1.1M
- Bradley GrossPittsburgh$1M
- Brian JankowitzPhiladelphia$978K
- Donald OrourkePhiladelphia$662K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.