Bret Taback, MD
Surgical Oncology · New York, NYNPI 1659455483
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 59 payments — averaging $29.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$417
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$297
- Smith+Nephew$235
- Merck$130
- Genentech USA, Inc.$125
- Novartis$83
- plus $465 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17010%
- Food & beverage$1,53688%
- Entertainment$473%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 3 | $417 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 15 | $297 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $235 |
| Merck | 6 | $130 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 6 | $125 |
| Novartis | 4 | $83 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $83 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $56 |
| KUB Technologies Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Axogen | 1 | $36 |
| Amgen | 1 | $31 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
| Clinigen, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Savi SCOUT$417
How this compares
$1,753 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 173 surgical oncology 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 25 | $34 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical oncology in New York
- Michael LoweNew York$814K
- George PlitasNew York$808K
- George MillerNew York$759K
- Lisa NewmanNew York$262K
- Danielle BelloNew York$252K
- Rohit ChandwaniNew York$125K
- Sheldon FeldmanNew York$97K
- Kepal PatelNew York$94K
- James ParkNew York$40K
- Scott HananNew York$15K
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.