Aksim Rivera
Vascular Surgery · Bronx, NYNPI 1841586971
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 314 payments — averaging $83.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$5K
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Medline Industries LP$2K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Endologix LLC$2K
- plus $11K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,8147%
- Food & beverage$24,32093%
- Education$500%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 38 | $4,880 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 28 | $2,599 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 36 | $2,425 |
| Medline Industries LP | 9 | $2,071 |
| Smith+Nephew | 74 | $1,841 |
| Endologix LLC | 18 | $1,679 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 8 | $1,219 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 11 | $1,152 |
| Davol Inc. | 9 | $947 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 6 | $856 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 6 | $797 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 7 | $628 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $599 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 8 | $567 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 7 | $563 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 5 | $510 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 7 | $466 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $270 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $262 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $250 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $193 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 5 | $149 |
| Abbott | 2 | $143 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $137 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $118 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 1 | $117 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $78 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $72 |
| Amgen | 3 | $67 |
| Stryker | 1 | $47 |
| Imbed Biosciences Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $24 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $22 |
| TEI Medical Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Indigo$2,363
- Hyalomatrix Wound Device$1,769
- Indigo System$1,734
- Diamondback Peripheral$1,208
- Peripheral Orbital Atherectomy System$1,090
- Novosorb BTM$1,078
- INTEGRA$1,042
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$912
- ENDURANT IIS$863
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$835
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$687
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$665
- GRAFIX PL$616
- PluroGel Burn & Wound Dressings$600
- PREVENA$599
- Penumbra Ruby Coil$488
- TandemLife$437
- PRIMATRIX$434
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$408
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$382
How this compares
$26,184 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 405 vascular surgery providers in New York.
Other vascular surgery in Bronx
- Edvard SkripochnikBronx$405K
- Evan LipsitzBronx$136K
- Saadat ShariffBronx$69K
- Gary GelbfishNew York$1.9M
- Sundaram RavikumarDobbs Ferry$1.8M
- Antonios GasparisHuntington$1.7M
- John LantisNew York$1.4M
- Sonya NoorBuffalo$1.2M
- Brian DerubertisNew York$1M
- Thomas MaldonadoNew York$1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.