Frank Lunati
Surgery · Port Jefferson, NYNPI 1154372233
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 116 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Novo Nordisk at 38.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $758 and has fallen 76.4% since, to $179 in 2025.
Across 116 payments — averaging $20.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$936
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$525
- Johnson & Johnson$225
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$155
- AbbVie$136
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$104
- plus $355 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,435100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 42 | $936 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 22 | $525 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 12 | $225 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $155 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $136 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $104 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $76 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 4 | $70 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $29 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$2,435 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,596 surgery providers in New York.
Other surgery in Port Jefferson
- Joseph PinkhasPort Jefferson$122K
- Hesham AtwaPort Jefferson$110K
- Ashish AgarwalaPort Jefferson$106K
- Arif AhmadPort Jefferson$60K
- 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
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.