Gregory Piskun
Hospice and Palliative Medicine · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1689875973
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $620,399 of the $902,003 with a category attached, or 68.8%. Medtronic accounts for 68.8% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Among hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in NY 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 6 payments — averaging $150,334 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$620K
- Covidien LP$282K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$281,60431%
- Other$620,39969%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 4 | $620,399 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $281,604 |
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.
- HET$763,416
How this compares
$902,003 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 133 hospice and palliative medicine providers in New York.
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Other hospice and palliative medicine in Brooklyn
- Sherly AbrahamBrooklyn$2K
- Alexander LoreckBrooklyn$2K
- Ayman ShahineBrooklyn$1K
- Faina TreybichBrooklyn$1K
- Eduard PorosnicuBrooklyn$354
- Tamar SeidmanBrooklyn$283
- Sarah EganBrooklyn$222
- Suneetha ChowdaryBrooklyn$215
- Jane SimpsonJohnson City$11K
- Stella RubinaAstoria$3K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.