James Clarke, MD
General Surgery · Valhalla, NYNPI 1487040887
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,936 of the $3,934 with a category attached, or 74.6%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 49.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,390, 9.7 times the $248 reported in 2023. Among general surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 53 payments — averaging $74.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$2K
- Polynovo North America LLC$134
- Convatec Inc.$44
- Johnson & Johnson$34
- Bayer$24
- plus $20 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$99825%
- Food & beverage$2,93675%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 24 | $1,927 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 22 | $1,751 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $134 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $34 |
| Bayer | 1 | $24 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
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.
- HemoBlast Bellows$1,369
- Signia$639
- ProGrip$407
- LigaSure$167
- Novosorb BTM$134
- ENDO GIA ULTRA$109
How this compares
$3,934 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 122 general 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.
Other general surgery in Valhalla
- Filippo FilicoriNew York$139K
- Collin BrathwaiteMineola$118K
- Sukanya SubramanianNew York$48K
- William OmalleyRochester$10K
- Elie SuttonBrooklyn$9K
- Alain DerzieNew Hyde Park$9K
- Garri PasklinskyWest Islip$6K
- Vasileios KostarasStony Brook$3K
- Lynn ChoiAlbany$2K
- Marc FinkelsteinBay Shore$2K
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.