Christina Sanders
Surgery · Williamsville, NYNPI 1811142532
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.0%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Teleflex LLC at 41.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $12,729, more than ten times the $131 reported in 2019. Among surgery 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 125 payments — averaging $349.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teleflex LLC$18K
- CMR Surgical, Inc.$13K
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$538
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$238
- Medtronic$204
- plus $540 from 6 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $155,000 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.
- Activ Surgical, Inc.$155K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,75015%
- Speaking & faculty fees$18,37542%
- Travel & lodging$10,20023%
- Food & beverage$3,6598%
- Education$4,50010%
- Gifts$2241%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teleflex LLC | 15 | $17,988 |
| CMR Surgical, Inc. | 8 | $12,546 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 86 | $11,655 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 6 | $538 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $238 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $204 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 1 | $188 |
| Activ Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Teleflex Medical Incorporated | 1 | $130 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Versius Surgical System (Versius Plus)$12,365
- Titan SGS$9,517
- TITAN SGS STANDARD GASTRIC STAPLER$8,303
- Da Vinci Surgical System$6,173
- DAVINCI XI$4,500
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$240
- ActivSight$144
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$126
- SEAMGUARD Staple Line Reinforcement$112
- Signia$105
How this compares
$43,708 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,596 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 22 | $4,557 |
| Sucralfate | 17 | $1,175 |
| Omeprazole | 13 | $473 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 17 | $412 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Williamsville
- George BlessiosWilliamsville$67K
- Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
- Flavio Malcher Martins de OliveiraNew York$695K
- Yuri NovitskyNew York$548K
- Rasa ZarnegarNew York$478K
- Tanuja DamaniNew York$459K
- Benjamin SadowitzSyracuse$419K
- Stephen GoldstoneNy$386K
- Rache SimmonsNew York$371K
- George DenotoManhasset$333K
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.