Benjamin Youdelman, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1023216660
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 142 payments — averaging $124.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$12K
- Edwards Lifesciences$868
- Cook Medical LLC$820
- Bolton Medical Inc$777
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$683
- Medtronic$620
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,734100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 18 | $11,613 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 11 | $868 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 20 | $820 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 17 | $777 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 12 | $683 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $620 |
| AOP Health US, LLC | 1 | $507 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 15 | $371 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $339 |
| Abbott | 10 | $212 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $195 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $171 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $93 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $92 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $37 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $33 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $33 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $20 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $18 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $16 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $15 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $12 |
| GSK | 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.
- Rapiblyk$1,013
- Relay Plus$372
- Valiant Navion$193
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$186
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$176
- PhotoFix$167
- On-X$167
- BioGlue$167
- Impella$151
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX, MODELS$150
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$149
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$149
- Product in Development$149
- Valiant Captivia$145
- PREVELEAK$138
- Zenith Spiral-Z$124
- Cook Medical AAA$123
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$100
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$100
How this compares
$17,684 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Brooklyn
- Israel JacobowitzBrooklyn$529K
- Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
- Mathew WilliamsNew York$4.3M
- Nasser AltorkiNew York$2.2M
- Prasad AdusumilliNew York$2M
- Sanjay SamySyracuse$1.7M
- David AdamsNew York$1.6M
- Koji TakedaNew York$1.3M
- Gilbert TangNew York$1.2M
- Isaac GeorgeNew York$1.1M
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.