Has Derek Brinster, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $91,901 in general payments to Derek Brinster, MD across 126 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 Derek Brinster, MD 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 Derek Brinster, MD 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.

Derek Brinster, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New York, NYNPI 1881628444

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (37.5%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Bolton Medical Inc accounts for 66.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $32,231 and has fallen 88.7% since, to $3,655 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular 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.

$91,901in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 126 payments — averaging $729.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Bolton Medical Inc$61K
Cook Incorporated$16K
Artivion, Inc.$7K
Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated$6K
Cook Medical LLC$1K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$613
plus $252 from 3 others

$104,316in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 44 payments — averaging $2370.81 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.

Medtronic$73K
Artivion, Inc.$26K
Bolton Medical Inc$5K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$32,54035%
Speaking & faculty fees$34,42537%
Travel & lodging$16,75918%
Food & beverage$4,1284%
Education$4,0504%

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
Bolton Medical Inc	84	$61,044
Cook Incorporated	8	$16,217
Artivion, Inc.	13	$6,870
Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated	2	$5,600
Cook Medical LLC	7	$1,306
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	8	$613
Medtronic	2	$124
Baxter Healthcare	1	$94
Abiomed	1	$33

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.

TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$38,308
Cook$10,918
Zenith Alpha$8,775
RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$8,716
Grafts$5,173
Relay Plus$4,349
JOTEC$3,800
Relay Grafts$2,706
Cook Medical Zenith$1,615
Cook Medical Thoracic$1,500
Cardiac non-SynerGraft$837
E-vita OPEN NEO$800
GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$395
BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$213
ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$213
PHOTOFIX DECELLULARIZED BOVINE PERICARDIUM$213
CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$213
BioGlue$184
On-X$184
PhotoFix$184

How this compares

$91,901 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$226,966

Medicare patients

294

Services billed

469

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 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

See the full list for New York →

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.

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