Ross C Puffer, MD

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• University Of Maryland Medical Center Hospital · Baltimore, MD

Colleagues at Shock Trauma Associates PA

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 262 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Katie Brooke Andersen, CRNP Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Baltimore, MD
• Anna Elizabeth Brown, AG-ACNP Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Baltimore, MD
• Susan Brundage, MD Surgery Physician · New York, NY
• Alexandra Delbarco, DNP, CRNP Nurse Practitioner · Baltimore, MD
• Barbara C Eaton, CRNP Nurse Practitioner · Baltimore, MD
• Dr. Thomas James Gregory, MD Emergency Medicine Physician · Baltimore, MD
• Devorah Howell, ACNP-AG Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Randallstown, MD
• Joanna Kim, AGACNP-BC Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Baltimore, MD
• Wenceslas Krakowiecki, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Baltimore, MD
• Jennifer Ann Nielsen, NP Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Indianapolis, IN
• Dr. Sukhwant Sidhu, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Baltimore, MD
• Bobbie Jean Sims, ANCP-BC Registered Nurse · Baltimore, MD

Other providers in Bethesda

• Dr. Charles Andrew Miller, MD

  Individual Neurological Surgery Physician · NPI 1770902603

  8901 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20889-0001 · (301) 295-4000

• Dr. Lisa Patricia Mulligan, MD

  Individual Neurological Surgery Physician · NPI 1245231554

  National Naval Medical Center/ Dept OF Neurosurger 8901 Wisconsin Ave Bldg 9 2ND Deck, Bethesda, MD 20889-0001 · (301) 295-4421

• Edjah Nduom, MD

  Individual Neurological Surgery Physician · NPI 1285802801

  10 Center Dr 10/3D20 Msc 1414, Bethesda, MD 20892-1013 · (301) 496-2921

• Dr. Samuel J Potolicchio Jr., MD

  Individual Neurological Surgery Physician · NPI 1114993367

  4940 Hampden Ln Ste 300, Bethesda, MD 20814-2968 · (301) 652-7155

• Washington Brain and Spine Institute PC

  Organization Neurological Surgery Physician · NPI 1689642837

  4927 Auburn Ave Ste T-50, Bethesda, MD 20814 · (301) 718-9611