Israel Jacobowitz, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1952399487
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 587 payments — averaging $900.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$525K
- Medtronic$878
- Edwards Lifesciences$584
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$510
- Abbott$316
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$228
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$437,71383%
- Travel & lodging$83,33116%
- Food & beverage$7,8211%
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. | 507 | $525,088 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $878 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 9 | $584 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 16 | $510 |
| Abbott | 14 | $316 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $228 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $176 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $165 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $142 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $126 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $78 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $62 |
| GSK | 2 | $59 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Novartis | 2 | $55 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $48 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $46 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $32 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $24 |
| Merck | 1 | $23 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 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.
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$246,272
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$118,864
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$101,879
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX, MODELS$34,814
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$9,842
- ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$900
- Penditure$417
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$228
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$176
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$165
- Avalus$155
- Valiant Captivia$145
- Epic$141
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$140
- Relay Plus$130
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$117
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$117
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$117
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$117
How this compares
$528,864 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 11 | $6,883 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 14 | $562 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 22 | $235 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 16 | $127 |
| Losartan Potassium | 16 | $117 |
| Atenolol | 11 | $97 |
| Lisinopril | 14 | $67 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $24 | $6,88311 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Brooklyn
- 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
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.