Has Ankit Dhamija, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $159,158 in general payments to Ankit Dhamija, MD across 536 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ankit Dhamija, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ankit Dhamija, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ankit Dhamija, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Stony Brook, NYNPI 1831454354

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (41.8%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 49.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $76,866, more than ten times the $3,080 reported in 2019. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular 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.

$159,158in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 536 payments — averaging $296.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$79K
Atricure, Inc.$54K
Noah Medical Corporation$10K
Zimmer Biomet$4K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
Medtronic$3K
plus $6K from 19 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$43,54027%
Travel & lodging$26,26317%
Food & beverage$22,84214%
Education$66,50042%
Gifts$140%

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
Intuitive Surgical	230	$79,334
Atricure, Inc.	142	$53,536
Noah Medical Corporation	36	$10,092
Zimmer Biomet	38	$4,187
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	13	$2,904
Medtronic(2 entities)	32	$2,827
Steris Corporation	4	$2,308
Davol Inc.	7	$966
On Target Laboratories, Inc	3	$560
Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc	4	$325
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	3	$310
Conmed Corporation	2	$268
AstraZeneca	2	$263
Endogastric Solutions, Inc	3	$259
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$201
Johnson & Johnson(3 entities)	4	$200
Globus Medical	1	$161
Boston Scientific	2	$157
Stryker	1	$110
Merck	1	$81
Olympus America Inc.	2	$50
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$19
BD	1	$14
Monaghan Medical Corporation	1	$13
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$72,793
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$46,777
GALAXY$8,701
DAVINCI XI$3,000
TRUFREEZE$2,274
ECHELON FLEX Stapler$2,224
HARMONIC Product Family$2,224
Surgicel Powder$2,224
AdvantageRib$2,178
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$2,161
Signia$2,024
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$1,795
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,333
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$634
MATRIXRIB$508
Cytalux$471
PROGEL$375
LigaSure$347
ALIYA SYSTEM$292
STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$281

How this compares

$159,158 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$306,114

Medicare patients

307

Services billed

1,046

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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Stony Brook

Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
Gilbert TangNew York$842K
Michael ZervosNew York$811K
Israel JacobowitzBrooklyn$529K
Elias ZiasNew York$465K
Arthur MartellaRochester$431K
Isaac GeorgeNew York$395K
Eugene GrossiNew York$350K
John GoncalvesMineola$332K
Costas BizekisNew York$321K

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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.

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