Jeffrey Degen, MD
Neurological Surgery · West Nyack, NYNPI 1982611232
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 11 payments — averaging $31.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$115
- Boston Scientific$89
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$30
- Baxter Healthcare$27
- Stryker$25
- Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$17
- plus $44 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$309%
- Food & beverage$31691%
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(2 entities) | 2 | $115 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $89 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $27 |
| Stryker | 1 | $25 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $16 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $15 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$346 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 446 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 17 | $109 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in West Nyack
- J MoccoNew York$16.3M
- Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$15.7M
- Ryan DenhaeseWilliamsville$2M
- Christopher KellnerNew York$1.8M
- Elad LevyWilliamsville$1.6M
- Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.3M
- Gordon BaltuchNew York$1.2M
- Leo HopkinsBuffalo$1.2M
- Shahram MajidiNew York$1.1M
- Aziz Basem QandahNew Hartford$1.1M
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.