Alejandro Berenstein
Neurological Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1790766848
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,009,707 of the $1,104,801 with a category attached, or 91.4%. Angiodynamics, Inc. accounts for 91.4% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 93 payments — averaging $11,880 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$1M
- Microvention, Inc.$40K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$39K
- Nuvascular Inc.$14K
- Stryker$1K
- Medtronic$777
- plus $769 from 7 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $6469.35 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Microvention, Inc.$31K
- Nuvascular Inc.$14K
- Rapid Medical Ltd$390
Across 10 payments — averaging $20,547 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Imperative Care, Inc$173K
- Scientia Vascular$33K
- Sequent Medical, Inc.$0
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,009,70791%
- Consulting fees$85,7008%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,0000%
- Travel & lodging$4650%
- Food & beverage$4,9290%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 19 | $1,009,707 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 29 | $39,704 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 13 | $38,806 |
| Nuvascular Inc. | 1 | $13,800 |
| Stryker | 14 | $1,238 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $777 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 2 | $294 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $149 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $117 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 1 | $102 |
| MIVI Neuroscience, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Soft-Vu$592,233
- Mariner$160,565
- Embotrap$15,600
- Pulsar Vascular PulseRider Aneurysm Neck Reconstruction Device$13,800
- TRUFILL$13,800
- HARBOR Occlusion Device$13,800
- EMBOTRAP II Revascularization Device$9,117
- WEB$5,444
- LVIS$1,143
- Sofia$1,000
- ONYX 18$450
- ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$294
- PHIL$249
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$211
- ATLAS$150
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$149
- ZOOM REPERFUSION CATHETER$149
- Headway Duo Microcatheter$143
- CATALYST$142
- SURPASS$142
How this compares
$1,104,801 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.
Other neurological surgery in New York
- J MoccoNew York$1.6M
- Darryl LauNew York$915K
- Mark BilskyNew York$903K
- Jan-Karl BurkhardtNew York$441K
- Dean ChouNew York$383K
- Reade DeleacyNew York$329K
- Johanna FifiNew York$326K
- David LangerNew York$258K
- Ali BaajNew York$240K
- Viviane TabarNew York$231K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.