Has Aurora Pryor, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $124,802 in general payments to Aurora Pryor, MD across 217 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 Aurora Pryor, 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 Aurora Pryor, 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.

Aurora Pryor, MD

Surgery · Stony Brook, NYNPI 1336223221

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (53.1%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 29.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $37,357 and has fallen 84.0% since, to $5,977 in 2025. Among 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.

$124,802in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 217 payments — averaging $575.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$37K
Stryker$34K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$34K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$9K
Covidien LP$5K
Intuitive Surgical$3K
plus $3K from 11 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$66,29453%
Speaking & faculty fees$38,97031%
Travel & lodging$10,0958%
Food & beverage$9,4108%
Education$320%

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
Medtronic	97	$37,204
Stryker	26	$34,404
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	43	$34,231
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$9,159
Covidien LP	6	$4,542
Intuitive Surgical	17	$2,660
Regeneron	1	$948
Applied Medical Resources Corporation	2	$750
Intra-sana Laboratories	3	$194
Novo Nordisk	2	$147
Olympus America Inc.	1	$140
Boston Scientific	2	$134
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$118
Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited	3	$58
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$46
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	2	$34
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$33

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.

GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$21,510
GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$21,366
1688$20,841
GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$19,529
SEAMGUARD Staple Line Reinforcement$15,171
SPY-PHI SYSTEM$12,975
LigaSure$9,777
S3$9,500
GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$6,898
Signia$6,432
1688 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$6,300
SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforcement$5,405
1788$2,375
Da Vinci Surgical System$2,330
ECHELON FLEX Stapler$2,020
HARMONIC Product Family$2,020
Echelon Flex$1,010
Harmonic$1,010
SEAMGUARD$950
AIM LAPARASCOPES$900

How this compares

$124,802 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,596 surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$11,327

Medicare patients

Services billed

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 surgery in Stony Brook

Roberto BergamaschiStony Brook$283K
Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
Flavio Malcher Martins de OliveiraNew York$695K
Yuri NovitskyNew York$548K
Rasa ZarnegarNew York$478K
Tanuja DamaniNew York$459K
Benjamin SadowitzSyracuse$419K
Stephen GoldstoneNy$386K
Rache SimmonsNew York$371K
George DenotoManhasset$333K

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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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