Aaron Sasson, MD
Surgical Oncology · Stony Brook, NYNPI 1073563953
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (44.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Merck at 43.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,562 and has fallen 69.4% since, to $783 in 2025.
Across 30 payments — averaging $187.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- AbbVie$310
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$223
- Baxter Healthcare$150
- plus $371 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,52045%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3005%
- Travel & lodging$63711%
- Food & beverage$2,17839%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 1 | $2,440 |
| Medtronic | 14 | $1,097 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $1,043 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $310 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $223 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $150 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $124 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $122 |
| Stryker | 1 | $95 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $30 |
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$724
- Signia$708
- DA VINCI SP$300
- Nanoknife$204
- TISSEEL$150
- RIBFIX TITAN$124
- AXIOS$122
- Sonicision$108
How this compares
$5,634 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 173 surgical oncology providers in New York.
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 surgical oncology in Stony Brook
- Georgios GeorgakisStony Brook$11K
- Sherif Abdel-MisihStony Brook$3K
- Sheldon FeldmanNew York$97K
- Kepal PatelNew York$94K
- Helen CappuccinoBuffalo$70K
- Jose Alberty OllerStaten Island$63K
- Megan WinnerMineola$51K
- George PlitasNew York$39K
- James ParkNew York$28K
- Anna WeissRochester$27K
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.