Jeffrey Stern, MD
Transplant Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1114364056
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,730 of the $3,629 with a category attached, or 75.2%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 50.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,551 and has fallen 87.5% since, to $194 in 2025.
Across 22 payments — averaging $164.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Transmedics, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$219
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$190
- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$145
- Bayer$120
Across 8 payments — averaging $5961.05 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$47K
- United Therapeutics Corporation$556
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,73075%
- Food & beverage$89925%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 13 | $1,831 |
| Transmedics, Inc. | 2 | $1,124 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $219 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $190 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $145 |
| Bayer | 1 | $120 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,550
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$1,124
- Signia$167
- Nubeqa$120
How this compares
$3,629 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 72 transplant 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 transplant surgery in New York
- Kishore IyerNew York$95K
- Jason HawksworthNew York$91K
- Parissa TabrizianNew York$74K
- Lloyd RatnerNew York$32K
- Hautien LiouNew York$31K
- Karim HalazunNew York$28K
- Myron SchwartzNew York$27K
- Ron ShapiroNew York$16K
- Gabriel GondolesiNew York$15K
- Lewis TepermanNew York$13K
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.