Has Howard Riina, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $95,943 in general payments to Howard Riina, MD across 155 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 Howard Riina, 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 Howard Riina, 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.

Howard Riina, MD

Neurological Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1639199367

Payments from drug & device makers

$95,943in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 155 payments — averaging $618.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$71K
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$21K
Microvention, Inc.$2K
Balt USA, LLC$221
Leica Microsystems Cambridge Limited$165
Stryker$164
plus $793 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$24,52526%
Speaking & faculty fees$48,80051%
Travel & lodging$17,23418%
Food & beverage$5,3856%

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(2 entities)	92	$71,206
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	34	$21,149
Microvention, Inc.	14	$2,246
Balt USA, LLC	2	$221
Leica Microsystems Cambridge Limited	1	$165
Stryker	4	$164
Imperative Care, Inc	1	$149
Route 92 Medical, Inc.	2	$145
Leica Microsystems (schweiz) AG	1	$123
Rapid Medical Ltd	1	$122
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$90
Phenox Inc.	1	$84
Qapel Medical Inc	1	$80

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.

How this compares

$95,943 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$79,121

Medicare patients

123

Services billed

272

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 neurological surgery in New York

J MoccoNew York$16.3M
Christopher KellnerNew York$1.8M
Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.3M
Gordon BaltuchNew York$1.2M
Shahram MajidiNew York$1.1M
Michael KaplittNew York$939K
Jan-Karl BurkhardtNew York$929K
Darryl LauNew York$916K
Mark BilskyNew York$903K
Reade DeleacyNew York$888K

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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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