Cary Passik, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Suffern, NYNPI 1821006180
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,467 of the $15,061 with a category attached, or 76.1%. It is spread thinly across 41 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 358 payments — averaging $42.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Abiomed$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- plus $4K from 35 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1000.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AstraZeneca$1K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,58224%
- Food & beverage$11,46776%
- Education$120%
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.
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.
- ULTOMIRIS$2,447
- Impella$1,174
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$450
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$341
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$327
- Watchman$243
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$192
- SYMPLICITY G3$160
- Farapulse$150
- WATCHMAN FLX$147
- COSEAL$142
- FLOSEAL$142
- TISSEEL$142
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$135
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$135
- Vascular Lithotripsy$124
- Attruby$123
- ONYX FRONTIER$122
- CoreValve Evolut$100
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$100
How this compares
$15,061 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
See all thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) 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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Suffern
- 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
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.