Chester Yavorski
Vascular Surgery · Plains, PANPI 1174590467
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.8% of the total across 82 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 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $603 and has fallen 63.4% since, to $221 in 2022. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $3,795.
Across 82 payments — averaging $17.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$296
- Organogenesis Inc.$177
- Smith+Nephew$170
- Endologix LLC$110
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$109
- Shire North American Group Inc$100
- plus $448 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$181%
- Food & beverage$1,39299%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 28 | $296 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 12 | $177 |
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $170 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $110 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 5 | $109 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 4 | $100 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $41 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $26 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $26 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $23 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $21 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Venturemed Group, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$1,410 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 236 vascular surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
Other vascular surgery in Plains
- Darren SchneiderPhiladelphia$569K
- Elizabeth GenovesePhiladelphia$343K
- Shang LohPhiladelphia$306K
- Paul FoleyDoylestown$241K
- Michel MakarounPittsburgh$143K
- Robert MeisnerLebanon$128K
- Vincent DigiovanniMedia$127K
- Efthymios AvgerinosPittsburgh$120K
- Meghan DermodyLancaster$103K
- Carleen ChoErie$85K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.