Garret Garofolo-Gonzalez, MD
Sports Medicine · New York, NYNPI 1710332689
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (36.2%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 30.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $16,506 and has fallen 94.4% since, to $920 in 2025.
Across 83 payments — averaging $432.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$11K
- Smith+Nephew$10K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$6K
- DJO, LLC$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Saxum Surgical, Inc.$1K
- plus $2K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$13,00036%
- Travel & lodging$11,94033%
- Food & beverage$2,9838%
- Education$7,96622%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 18 | $11,105 |
| Smith+Nephew | 14 | $10,411 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 13 | $6,462 |
| DJO, LLC | 5 | $3,146 |
| Stryker | 14 | $1,412 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $1,228 |
| Polaris Technology Solutions LLC | 4 | $1,141 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $605 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $129 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 1 | $120 |
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.
- Accu-pass$2,901
- NA$757
- INHANCE$668
- NANOTACK FLEX$470
- Acufex$394
- Endobutton$394
- FAST-FIX$394
- PROCINCH$311
- CMF$293
- 1788$225
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$160
- N/A$148
- DYNACORD$147
- BRISTOW-LATARJET$143
- Q-FIX Shoulder$136
- EQUINOXE PHX SYSTEM$129
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$129
- SPATIAL FRAME$122
How this compares
$35,888 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 403 sports medicine 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 247 | $630 |
| Vitamin D2Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D2) | 14 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in New York
- Gregory DifeliceNew York$1.8M
- Theodore BlaineNew York$765K
- Robert MeislinNew York$720K
- Danyal NawabiNew York$592K
- Riley WilliamsNew York$512K
- Bryan KellyNew York$409K
- Samuel TaylorNew York$255K
- Eric StraussNew York$241K
- Michael FuNew York$210K
- Michael AlaiaNew York$207K
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.