Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

PAUL W HARTZFELD

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Neurological Surgery

NPI
1306055074
CMS profile
1253384
Location
AKRON, OH

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$3,253.72

  • Reported across 104 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$357.94

8 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $357.94 8

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Cerapedics Inc. $156.84 2
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION $104.62 1
Medtronic, Inc. $47.01 2
ABBVIE INC. $22.08 1
PROVIDENCE MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, INC. $13.72 1
UCB, Inc. $13.67 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $137.51 3
PY2019 $405.06 13
PY2020 $535.52 22
PY2021 $1,258.97 46
PY2022 $142.08 5
PY2023 $416.64 7
PY2024 $357.94 8

Payment records · PY2024 (8)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABBVIE INC. $22.08 03/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103887415 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $104.62 10/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1092501592 CMS
Cerapedics Inc. $136.85 01/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1133356812 CMS
Cerapedics Inc. $19.99 04/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1133356814 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $17.73 12/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117151489 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $29.28 12/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117151491 CMS
Providence Medical Technology, Inc. $13.72 03/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1089608855 CMS
UCB, Inc. $13.67 07/31/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1143068573 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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