Has Iosif Gulkarov, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,073 in general payments to Iosif Gulkarov, MD across 56 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 Iosif Gulkarov, 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 Iosif Gulkarov, 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.

Iosif Gulkarov, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Flushing, NYNPI 1366630659

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,073in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 56 payments — averaging $90.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$3K
Edwards Lifesciences$964
Abiomed$529
Medtronic$447
Medela LLC$436
Artivion, Inc.$76
plus $99 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,00020%
Food & beverage$4,07380%

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
Atricure, Inc.	27	$2,522
Edwards Lifesciences	13	$964
Abiomed	1	$529
Medtronic(2 entities)	9	$447
Medela LLC	1	$436
Artivion, Inc.	1	$76
Zimmer Biomet	1	$51
Cook Medical LLC	2	$27
AbbVie	1	$21

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

$5,073 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$94,541

Medicare patients

Services billed

209

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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Flushing

Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
Mathew WilliamsNew York$4.3M
Nasser AltorkiNew York$2.2M
Prasad AdusumilliNew York$2M
Sanjay SamySyracuse$1.7M
David AdamsNew York$1.6M
Koji TakedaNew York$1.3M
Gilbert TangNew York$1.2M
Isaac GeorgeNew York$1.1M
Chukwumere NwoguBuffalo$969K

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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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