Gary Grosner, MD
Thoracic Surgery · Buffalo, NYNPI 1699768283
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (48.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 33 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 59.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,954 and has fallen 87.8% since, to $969 in 2025.
Across 261 payments — averaging $57.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$9K
- Abiomed$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$857
- Boston Scientific$713
- Medtronic$683
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$346
- plus $2K from 27 others
Across 68 payments — averaging $3001.06 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.
- Boston Scientific$107K
- Edwards Lifesciences$97K
- Abiomed$55
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,25041%
- Travel & lodging$1,54310%
- Food & beverage$7,30448%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 63 | $8,991 |
| Abiomed | 34 | $1,443 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 34 | $857 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $713 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 32 | $683 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 11 | $346 |
| Smith+Nephew | 17 | $284 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 2 | $230 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $193 |
| Abbott | 7 | $192 |
| Merck | 8 | $126 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 6 | $121 |
| BD | 2 | $105 |
| Stryker | 2 | $102 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $89 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 4 | $87 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $49 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $47 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $44 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $42 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $35 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $22 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $20 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Clearflow 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
Too few thoracic surgery providers in New Yorkto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 thoracic surgery in Buffalo
- Neel ChudgarBronx$10K
- Marc VimolratanaNew York$5K
- Allan MattiaBrooklyn$2K
- Syed YazdaniManhasset$259
- David DimarcoEllicottville$82
- Kevin HymanGreat Neck$0
- Roy OommenCortlandt Manor$0
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.