Has Dennis Kraus received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $159,314 in general payments to Dennis Kraus across 127 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Dennis Kraus did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Dennis Kraus come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Dennis Kraus

Otolaryngology · New York, NYNPI 1841279221

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $137,962 of the $159,314 with a category attached, or 86.6%. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 73.3% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $132,120, more than ten times the $251 reported in 2019. Among otolaryngology 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.

$159,314in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 127 payments — averaging $1254.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$117K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$35K
Intuitive Surgical$5K
Merck$1K
ECS OPCO 1 LLC$681
AstraZeneca$300
plus $515 from 5 others

$364,397in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 105 payments — averaging $3470.45 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.

Merck$364K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$137,96287%
Travel & lodging$12,8828%
Food & beverage$4,9353%
Education$3,5002%
Gifts$340%

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(2 entities)	45	$116,761
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	52	$34,866
Intuitive Surgical	13	$4,829
Merck	1	$1,363
ECS OPCO 1 LLC	6	$681
AstraZeneca	3	$300
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	3	$218
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$140
Stryker	1	$99
Foundation Medicine, Inc.	1	$41
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$18

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

$159,314 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 701 otolaryngology providers in New York.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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