Evan Lipsitz, MD
Vascular Surgery · Bronx, NYNPI 1255413407
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $12,539 of the $17,160 with a category attached, or 73.1%. 39 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cook Medical LLC at 30.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $5,004 and has fallen 68.4% since, to $1,584 in 2025.
Across 267 payments — averaging $64.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Medical LLC$5K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Cook Incorporated$2K
- Bolton Medical Inc$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$656
- Medtronic$627
- plus $4K from 33 others
Across 22 payments — averaging $1022.76 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.
- Bolton Medical Inc$11K
- Cook Research Incorporated$5K
- Medtronic$4K
- Amgen$3K
Across 6 payments — averaging $16,831 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Access Vascular Inc$101K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8005%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,48014%
- Travel & lodging$1,1987%
- Food & beverage$12,53973%
- Education$1421%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Medical LLC | 115 | $5,222 |
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $2,676 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $2,480 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 16 | $1,632 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 7 | $656 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $627 |
| Medline Industries LP | 24 | $495 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 2 | $372 |
| Smith+Nephew | 12 | $343 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 6 | $328 |
| Stryker | 2 | $222 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $179 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 2 | $173 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $165 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $164 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $158 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $156 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $152 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 7 | $116 |
| Inspiremd Ltd | 1 | $85 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $77 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Abbott | 1 | $70 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $62 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $59 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $51 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Humacyte Global, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Zenith Spiral-Z$3,245
- Relay Grafts$643
- Zilver PTX$497
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$473
- Cook Medical AAA$470
- AngioJet Ultra 5000A$450
- Grafts$403
- ELUVIA$378
- CLEANER$350
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$300
- Relay Plus$268
- Cook$267
- Zenith$235
- ENDURANT IIS$187
- Navicross$187
- METACROSS OTW$187
- ELLIPSYS VASCULAR ACCESS SYSTEM$168
- TARGET$166
- Lutonix Drug Coated Balloon$158
- Zenith Alpha$157
How this compares
$17,160 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 405 vascular 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 vascular surgery in Bronx
- Edvard SkripochnikBronx$158K
- Saadat ShariffBronx$69K
- Gary GelbfishNew York$1.9M
- Sundaram RavikumarDobbs Ferry$1.8M
- Antonios GasparisHuntington$1.5M
- Sonya NoorBuffalo$991K
- John LantisNew York$922K
- Brian DerubertisNew York$714K
- James McKinseyNew York$616K
- Peter FariesNew York$494K
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.