Heitham Wady, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · East Syracuse, NYNPI 1952806242
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,665 of the $11,299 with a category attached, or 67.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 98.4% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 38 payments — averaging $297.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Medtronic$83
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$35
- Johnson & Johnson$24
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$23
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$13
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,26629%
- Food & beverage$3683%
- Education$7,66568%
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 | 32 | $11,121 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $83 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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 SP$7,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,744
How this compares
$11,299 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 177 colon & rectal surgery providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 26 | $1,724 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in East Syracuse
- David NesbittEast Syracuse$15K
- John NicholsonEast Syracuse$11K
- David RivadeneiraWoodbury$271K
- Jerald WishnerMount Kisco$246K
- Sanghyun KimNew York$154K
- Ziad KronfolWest Nyack$81K
- Lynn OconnorHuntington$63K
- Mehraneh JafariNew York$50K
- Jeffrey MilsomNew York$42K
- Stephen RauhRochester$37K
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.