Has George Dekornfeld, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $50,144 in general payments to George Dekornfeld, MD across 195 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean George Dekornfeld, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about George Dekornfeld, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

George Dekornfeld, MD

Vascular Surgery · Johnstown, PANPI 1386175875

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (46.4%), grants and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Lifenet Health at 44.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $21,460, 2.2 times the $9,738 reported in 2019. Among vascular surgery clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$50,144in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 195 payments — averaging $257.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Lifenet Health$22K
Medtronic$12K
Inari Medical, Inc.$7K
Stryker$4K
Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
plus $2K from 14 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$23,25046%
Speaking & faculty fees$5,80012%
Grants$9,20018%
Travel & lodging$3,1186%
Food & beverage$8,62817%
Education$1490%

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
Lifenet Health	18	$22,186
Medtronic(2 entities)	44	$11,795
Inari Medical, Inc.	40	$7,489
Stryker	18	$3,558
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	15	$1,358
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	18	$1,349
Endologix LLC	14	$1,143
Boston Scientific	8	$437
Terumo Medical Corporation	2	$222
Johnson & Johnson	3	$221
Smith+Nephew	4	$66
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	1	$59
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$56
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	2	$44
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$34
Shape Memory Medical Inc.	1	$34
Urgo Medical North America, LLC	1	$33
Atricure, Inc.	1	$24
Philips North America LLC	1	$18
Kerecis Limited	1	$18

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.

TheraGenesis Wound Matrix$21,789
CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$9,262
FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$9,262
Endurant$4,707
ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,147
Valiant Captivia$1,097
ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,043
Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$670
GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$643
ENDURANT IIS$518
GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$322
GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$249
Azur CX Detachable$222
GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$114
ENDOCROSS Device$112
Torus Stent Graft System$112
XARELTO$104
ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$103
ARTIX MT$102

How this compares

$50,144 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 236 vascular surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$91,912

Medicare patients

417

Services billed

855

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 Johnstown

Darren SchneiderPhiladelphia$569K
Elizabeth GenovesePhiladelphia$343K
Shang LohPhiladelphia$306K
Paul FoleyDoylestown$241K
Michel MakarounPittsburgh$143K
Robert MeisnerLebanon$128K
Vincent DigiovanniMedia$127K
Efthymios AvgerinosPittsburgh$120K
Meghan DermodyLancaster$103K
Carleen ChoErie$85K

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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.

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