Firas Bridges, MD
Surgery · West Islip, NYNPI 1457532996
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 38 payments — averaging $77.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Baxter Healthcare$480
- Covidien LP$435
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$271
- Standard Bariatrics, Inc.$109
- AstraZeneca$94
- plus $279 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,927100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 11 | $1,259 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 10 | $480 |
| Covidien LP | 5 | $435 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $271 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $94 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $46 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $23 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- INTEGRA$814
- LigaSure$743
- Endo GIA$306
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$271
- PRIMATRIX$271
- FLOSEAL$113
- TITAN SGS STANDARD GASTRIC STAPLER$109
- Sonicision$107
How this compares
$2,927 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 West Islip
- Vinod BalachandranNew York$3M
- Stephanie GoffNew York$2.7M
- Alice WeiNew York$2.3M
- Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
- Thom LoreeBuffalo$1M
- Ajay PanchalAmherst$893K
- Flavio Malcher Martins de OliveiraNew York$814K
- Bonnie LonzeNew York$650K
- Stephen GoldstoneNy$647K
- Yuri NovitskyNew York$548K
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.