Bernard Baez, MD
Anesthesiology · Suffern, NYNPI 1053393751
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 92 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $751, 3.5 times the $216 reported in 2019. Among anesthesiology 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 92 payments — averaging $22.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$390
- AOP Health US, LLC$305
- Abiomed$276
- Merck$187
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$183
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$113
- plus $582 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,035100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 26 | $390 |
| AOP Health US, LLC | 1 | $305 |
| Abiomed | 9 | $276 |
| Merck | 12 | $187 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 13 | $183 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $113 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $112 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $100 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $79 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $29 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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$609
- GENERAL THROMBECTOMY$112
How this compares
$2,035 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,157 anesthesiology providers in New York.
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 anesthesiology in Suffern
- Jessica WillertSuffern$9K
- Mark KronenfeldBrooklyn$2.4M
- Kiran PatelNew York$832K
- Karina GritsenkoBronx$665K
- Marc DicksteinNew York$585K
- Admir HadzicNew York$510K
- Christopher DimeoNew York$449K
- Christopher RieglerNew York$429K
- William UrmeyNew York$397K
- Sudhir DiwanNew York$255K
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.