Danny Sherwinter, MD
Surgery · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1477597581
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (32.2%), royalties or licence payments and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 32 manufacturers reported payments, led by Vioptix Inc at 35.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $10,484 and has fallen 96.3% since, to $387 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 110 payments — averaging $324.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vioptix Inc$13K
- Stryker$10K
- Flexdex Inc.$5K
- Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated$3K
- Medtronic$1K
- Intuitive Surgical$893
- plus $3K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$10,30829%
- Consulting fees$6,93419%
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,50032%
- Travel & lodging$3,68810%
- Food & beverage$2,9558%
- Education$1801%
- Gifts$1000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vioptix Inc | 3 | $12,627 |
| Stryker | 2 | $10,308 |
| Flexdex Inc. | 4 | $5,274 |
| Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated | 2 | $2,620 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $1,163 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 12 | $893 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $468 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 11 | $312 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $248 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $193 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $179 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $165 |
| Acell, Inc. | 6 | $143 |
| CSL Behring | 4 | $123 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $114 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 5 | $111 |
| Vertex | 4 | $99 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $71 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $64 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $63 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $56 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $38 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $36 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $33 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
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.
- PINPOINT$10,308
- T. Ox Tissue Oximeter$8,763
- Cook Medical Endoscopy$1,600
- AXIUS Needle Driver$1,500
- Signia$878
- Da Vinci Surgical System$554
- Spacemaker$450
- DA VINCI SP$161
- LigaSure$160
- STRATTICE$133
- Reltone 200 Mg$100
- Reltone 400 Mg$100
How this compares
$35,665 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
Other surgery in Brooklyn
- Nicholas MorinBrooklyn$86K
- 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.