Christos Stavropoulos, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New York, NYNPI 1629022579
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (47.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 38 manufacturers reported payments, led by Ambu Inc. at 26.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $9,173 and has fallen 55.8% since, to $4,058 in 2025.
Across 151 payments — averaging $123.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ambu Inc.$5K
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Medtronic$3K
- Ambu A/s$1K
- Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc$634
- Johnson & Johnson$629
- plus $5K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,05032%
- Travel & lodging$3,69720%
- Food & beverage$8,88248%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $4,950 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 25 | $4,158 |
| Medtronic | 27 | $2,613 |
| Ambu A/s | 1 | $1,100 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 7 | $634 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 12 | $629 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 12 | $555 |
| On Target Laboratories, Inc | 2 | $471 |
| Amgen | 9 | $425 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $364 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $324 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $252 |
| Merck | 8 | $247 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $213 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $176 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $173 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $158 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $142 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $141 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $130 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 3 | $80 |
| Foundation Medicine, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $71 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $62 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $60 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Seapearl East, Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $30 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Esteve Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $20 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,588
- LigaSure$1,200
- Signia$578
- ALIYA SYSTEM$477
- Cytalux$471
- LUMAKRAS$250
- TECENTRIQ$222
- CHARTIS CATHETER$173
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$173
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$173
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$173
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$166
- Signet$154
- PICO7$142
- RENASYS GO$142
- Heli-FX EndoAnchor System$139
- Cook$138
- Channel Drain$136
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$135
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$130
How this compares
$18,628 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 37 | $261 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in New York
- Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
- Gilbert TangNew York$842K
- Michael ZervosNew York$811K
- Elias ZiasNew York$465K
- Isaac GeorgeNew York$395K
- Eugene GrossiNew York$350K
- Costas BizekisNew York$321K
- Brendon StilesNew York$314K
- Daniela MolenaNew York$221K
- Arnar GeirssonNew York$218K
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.