Has Gerard Vitale, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,321 in general payments to Gerard Vitale, MD across 48 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 Gerard Vitale, 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 Gerard Vitale, 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.

Gerard Vitale, MD

Vascular Surgery · Glen Cove, NYNPI 1396801759

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,321in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $69.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Angiodynamics, Inc.$2K
Boston Scientific$1K
Smith+Nephew$139
Medtronic$88
180 Medical, Inc.$83
Medline Industries LP$48
plus $27 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,45544%
Food & beverage$1,86656%

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
Angiodynamics, Inc.	2	$1,750
Boston Scientific	25	$1,187
Smith+Nephew	8	$139
Medtronic	5	$88
180 Medical, Inc.	4	$83
Medline Industries LP	2	$48
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$27

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.

Varithena Administration Pack$586

How this compares

$3,321 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 405 vascular surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$1,622,515

Medicare patients

832

Services billed

3,974

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
EliquisApixaban	45	$51,095
XareltoRivaroxaban	33	$30,966
Cilostazol	50	$1,260
Pentoxifylline	15	$413
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	34	$257
Gabapentin	12	$51
Diazepam	28	$36

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other vascular surgery in Glen Cove

Gary GelbfishNew York$1.9M
Sundaram RavikumarDobbs Ferry$1.8M
Antonios GasparisHuntington$1.7M
John LantisNew York$1.4M
Sonya NoorBuffalo$1.2M
Brian DerubertisNew York$1M
Thomas MaldonadoNew York$1M
James McKinseyNew York$750K
Peter FariesNew York$639K
Virendra PatelNew York$590K

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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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