George Yavorek, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · New Haven, CTNPI 1568552461
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $33,000 of the $45,409 with a category attached, or 72.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 78.8% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $19,197 and has fallen 68.0% since, to $6,134 in 2025. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in CT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 66 payments — averaging $688.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$36K
- Medtronic$7K
- Covidien LP$3K
Across 62 payments — averaging $1378.25 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.
- Medtronic$72K
- Covidien LP$14K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,30014%
- Travel & lodging$4,0259%
- Food & beverage$2,0845%
- Education$33,00073%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 31 | $35,797 |
| Medtronic | 24 | $7,022 |
| Covidien LP | 11 | $2,589 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$35,612
How this compares
$45,409 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 48 colon & rectal surgery providers in Connecticut.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in New Haven
- Haddon PantelNew Haven$22K
- Anne MongiuNew Haven$10K
- Hulda EinarsdottirNew Haven$2K
- Vikram ReddyNew Haven$561
- Walter LongoNew Haven$32
- John MonsonDanbury$182K
- Nicole SaurFairfield$36K
- Ryan BendlNorwalk$12K
- Marc CasasantaDanbury$11K
- Christine BartusNew Britain$9K
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.