David Okolica, MD
Surgery · Niagara Falls, NYNPI 1518148774
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,500 of the $11,541 with a category attached, or 65.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,877 and has fallen 98.1% since, to $113 in 2025.
Across 58 payments — averaging $198.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$80
- Smith+Nephew$78
- Bayer$68
- Medtronic$49
- Organogenesis Inc.$21
- plus $55 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,81724%
- Food & beverage$1,22411%
- Education$7,50065%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 47 | $11,190 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $78 |
| Bayer | 2 | $68 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $49 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $19 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $17 |
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$10,007
How this compares
$11,541 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 Niagara Falls
- 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
- Marina KurianNew York$328K
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.