Jennifer Ellis, MD
Vascular Surgery · Rochester, NYNPI 1720281991
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,849 of the $7,480 with a category attached, or 78.2%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. at 32.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,335 and has fallen 86.2% since, to $322 in 2025.
Across 70 payments — averaging $106.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$2K
- Endologix LLC$1K
- Medtronic$438
- Cook Medical LLC$387
- Inari Medical, Inc.$324
- plus $455 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6008%
- Grants$421%
- Travel & lodging$98913%
- Food & beverage$5,84978%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 19 | $2,403 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 16 | $2,198 |
| Endologix LLC | 8 | $1,275 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 14 | $438 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $387 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $324 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $191 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 2 | $140 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
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.
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$2,260
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,826
- ENDOCROSS Device$937
- Torus Stent Graft System$937
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$535
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$404
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$364
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$321
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$306
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$302
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$291
- VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis$165
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$160
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$160
- Zenith$135
- Cook$126
- Indigo System$125
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$119
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$119
- IMPEDE EMBOLIZATION PLUG$117
How this compares
$7,480 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 405 vascular 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 vascular surgery in Rochester
- Michael StonerRochester$207K
- Ryan LydonRochester$51K
- Gary GelbfishNew York$1.9M
- Sundaram RavikumarDobbs Ferry$1.8M
- Antonios GasparisHuntington$1.5M
- Sonya NoorBuffalo$991K
- John LantisNew York$922K
- Brian DerubertisNew York$714K
- James McKinseyNew York$616K
- Peter FariesNew York$494K
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.